The Locale Class
An internationalized program can display information differently throughout the world. For example, the program will display different messages in Paris, Tokyo, and New York. If the localization process has been fine-tuned, the program will display different messages in New York and London to account for the differences between American and British English. The internationalized program identifies the appropriate language and region of its end users by referencing a particular Locale object.
A Locale object encapsulates just enough information about a specific locale to uniquely identify the locale's region. When a locale-sensitive method is passed a Locale object as a parameter, it attempts to modify its behavior for that particular ...
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