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Asked: 2026-06-08T11:57:31+00:00

I create a locale, and try to create a ResourceBundle using said locale. If

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I create a locale, and try to create a ResourceBundle using said locale. If I use a finnish locale, ResourceBundle doesn’t seem to accept/understand it – instead it gets a null locale. When using an english locale, it seems to work just fine.

Locale obj = new Locale("en");
ResourceBundle resource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("web_resources", obj);
log.debug(resource.getLocale());
log.debug(obj);

Logs “en”, “en”.

Locale obj = new Locale("fi");
ResourceBundle resource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("web_resources", obj);
log.debug(resource.getLocale());
log.debug(obj);

Logs “”, “fi”.

I’ve also tested fr (french) and german (de) locales – they don’t work either. Adding country codes didn’t seem to help. What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found the problem a month or so ago. The resource file had the wrong character encoding. If I remember correctly, the file is supposed to be in UTF-8, but at some point the encoding had changed to ISO 8859-4.

    A silly mistake, but nevertheless a valuable lesson learned.

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