Question

I can”t get to work a simple code in a fresh project that is suppose to simply write one date in many langage depending on the Locale set.

Locale[] locales = new Locale[] {
            Locale.JAPAN,
            Locale.CHINA,
            Locale.KOREA,
            Locale.TAIWAN,
            Locale.ITALY,
            Locale.FRANCE,
            Locale.GERMAN
    };

    // Get an instance of current date time
    Date today = new Date();

    //
    // Iterates the entire Locale defined above and create a long 
    // formatted date using the SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance() 
    // with the format, the Locale and the date information.
    //
    for (Locale locale : locales) {
        System.out.println("Date format in "
            + locale.getDisplayName() 
            + " = "
            + SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance(
                  SimpleDateFormat.LONG, locale)
                      .format(today).toUpperCase());
    }
}

Here is the link of this code : URL of the code below

Now here is what it’s suppose to display

Date format in Japanese (Japan) = 2009/01/04

Date format in Chinese (China) = 2009年1月4日

Date format in Korean (South Korea) = 2009년 1월 4일 (일)

Date format in Chinese (Taiwan) = 2009年1月4日

Date format in Italian (Italy) = 4 GENNAIO 2009

Date format in French (France) = 4 JANVIER 2009

Date format in German = 4. JANUAR 2009

And here is MY display :

Date format in Japanese (Japan) = 2012 7 21

Date format in Chinese (China) = 2012 7 21

Date format in Korean (South Korea) = 2012 7 21

Date format in Chinese (Taiwan) = 2012 7 21

Date format in Italian (Italy) = 2012 7 21

Date format in French (France) = 2012 7 21

Date format in German = 2012 7 21

PROBLEM : What’s wrong ? Am I forgeting some obvious thing ? Do you have any lead ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

As it turned out it’s a device-specific problem. The code works on a phone with correct locale data and also on emulator. On HTC Desire there are some ROMs which have locale data corrupted. More on this issue.