CHINA
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SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE
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KOREA
US
For example, the expression Locale.CANADA represents the Locale object for Canada.
The constructors for Locale are
Locale(String language)
Locale(String language, String country)
Locale(String language, String country, String data)
These constructors build a Locale object to represent a specific language and in the case
of the last two, country. These values must contain ISO-standard language and country codes.
Auxiliary browser and vendor-specific information can be provided in data.
Locale defines several methods. One of the most important is setDefault( ), shown here:
static void setDefault(Locale localeObj)
This sets the default locale to that specified by localeObj.
Some other interesting methods are the following:
final String getDisplayCountry( )
final String getDisplayLanguage( )
final String getDisplayName( )
These return human-readable strings that can be used to display the name of the country,
the name of the language, and the complete description of the locale.
The default locale can be obtained using getDefault( ), shown here:
static Locale getDefault( )
Calendar and GregorianCalendar are examples of classes that operate in a locale-
sensitive manner. DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat also depend on the locale.
Random
The Random class is a generator of pseudorandom numbers. These are called pseudorandom
numbers because they are simply uniformly distributed sequences. Random defines the
following constructors:
Random( )
Random(long seed)
The first version creates a number generator that uses the current time as the starting, or seed,
value. The second form allows you to specify a seed value manually.
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