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International Component for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) is a mature, widely used Java library
providing Unicode and Globalization support
/*
******************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 1996-2007, International Business Machines Corporation and *
* others. All Rights Reserved. *
******************************************************************************
*
******************************************************************************
*/
package com.ibm.icu.impl;
import java.util.Locale;
/**
* A class to hold utility functions missing from java.util.Locale.
*/
public class LocaleUtility {
/**
* A helper function to convert a string of the form
* aa_BB_CC to a locale object. Why isn't this in Locale?
*/
public static Locale getLocaleFromName(String name) {
String language = "";
String country = "";
String variant = "";
int i1 = name.indexOf('_');
if (i1 < 0) {
language = name;
} else {
language = name.substring(0, i1);
++i1;
int i2 = name.indexOf('_', i1);
if (i2 < 0) {
country = name.substring(i1);
} else {
country = name.substring(i1, i2);
variant = name.substring(i2+1);
}
}
return new Locale(language, country, variant);
}
/**
* Compare two locale strings of the form aa_BB_CC, and
* return true if parent is a 'strict' fallback of child, that is,
* if child =~ "^parent(_.+)*" (roughly).
*/
public static boolean isFallbackOf(String parent, String child) {
if (!child.startsWith(parent)) {
return false;
}
int i = parent.length();
return (i == child.length() ||
child.charAt(i) == '_');
}
/**
* Compare two locales, and return true if the parent is a
* 'strict' fallback of the child (parent string is a fallback
* of child string).
*/
public static boolean isFallbackOf(Locale parent, Locale child) {
return isFallbackOf(parent.toString(), child.toString());
}
/*
* Convenience method that calls canonicalLocaleString(String) with
* locale.toString();
*/
/*public static String canonicalLocaleString(Locale locale) {
return canonicalLocaleString(locale.toString());
}*/
/*
* You'd think that Locale canonicalizes, since it munges the
* renamed languages, but it doesn't quite. It forces the region
* to be upper case but doesn't do anything about the language or
* variant. Our canonical form is 'lower_UPPER_UPPER'.
*/
/*public static String canonicalLocaleString(String id) {
if (id != null) {
int x = id.indexOf("_");
if (x == -1) {
id = id.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
} else {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
buf.append(id.substring(0, x).toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH));
buf.append(id.substring(x).toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH));
int len = buf.length();
int n = len;
while (--n >= 0 && buf.charAt(n) == '_') {
}
if (++n != len) {
buf.delete(n, len);
}
id = buf.toString();
}
}
return id;
}*/
/**
* Fallback from the given locale name by removing the rightmost _-delimited
* element. If there is none, return the root locale ("", "", ""). If this
* is the root locale, return null. NOTE: The string "root" is not
* recognized; do not use it.
*
* @return a new Locale that is a fallback from the given locale, or null.
*/
public static Locale fallback(Locale loc) {
// Split the locale into parts and remove the rightmost part
String[] parts = new String[]
{ loc.getLanguage(), loc.getCountry(), loc.getVariant() };
int i;
for (i=2; i>=0; --i) {
if (parts[i].length() != 0) {
parts[i] = "";
break;
}
}
if (i<0) {
return null; // All parts were empty
}
return new Locale(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]);
}
}