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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:37:12+00:00

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.util.Locale; public final class ForeignTextDemo { public static void main(String[] args)

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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Locale;

public final class ForeignTextDemo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        Locale locale = new Locale("TW");
        System.out.println(locale.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.TRADITIONAL_CHINESE));
        locale = new Locale("CN");
        System.out.println(locale.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE));
    }

}

When I run the program above, I get the following output:

契維文
cn

But, if I change the second locale to locale = new Locale("ZH");, I get the desired output of:

契維文
中文

Why is this? What I really want is the display language for Simplified Chinese. Is “ZH” just that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just “cn” isn’t the locale, the full local is “zh_CN” to differentiate with “tw_CN”.

    See the list of supported locales.

    locale1 = new Locale("zh", "cn")
println locale1.getDisplayLanguage(locale1)
println locale1.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.TRADITIONAL_CHINESE)
println locale1.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE)
println locale1.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.TAIWAN)
println locale1.getDisplayCountry(locale2)
println locale1.country

println ""

locale2 = new Locale("tw", "cn")
println locale1.getDisplayLanguage(locale2)
println locale2.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.TRADITIONAL_CHINESE)
println locale2.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE)
println locale2.getDisplayLanguage(Locale.TAIWAN)
println locale2.getDisplayCountry(locale2)
println locale2.country
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