Changing the English Country names to German language using Locale

Question

I have this requirements that I need to convert the equivalent country codes to German language country name. I am using the Locale builder for my codes.

Here are my codes:

The first one I did is this:

Locale locale = new Locale("GERMANY", "AT");

Generated output: German (Austria)

The second one:

Locale aLocale = new Locale.Builder().setLanguage("de").setRegion("AT").build();

Generated output: German (Austria)

What I need is to Convert the countryCode "AT" which is Austria to German Language, and it should generate Österreich.

Answer 1

The method getDisplayCountry() of Locale can take a Locale argument for which language to try to display it in. For example:

Locale locale = new Locale("de", "AT");
System.out.println(locale.getDisplayCountry(locale));

prints for me

Österreich

If you want the whole locale's name, just use getDisplayName() with a parameter, instead of getDisplayCountry().

This isn't guaranteed to work for every combination of locales. According to the docs:

If the name returned cannot be localized according to [the provided Locale parameter] (say, we don't have a Japanese name for Croatia), this function falls back on the English name, and finally on the ISO code as a last-resort value.

Also note that the language code for German is "de", not "GERMANY".