Question

Java I18n capability is amazing.
Supported locales works perfect:

Locale ar = new Locale("ar","SA");
System.out.println(ar.getDisplayName(ar));

outputs: العربية (السعودية)

But for not supported locales like Kazakh language, language name is displayed in same lang will output in Enlish(Standard), as written in Java Spec.

Locale locale = new Locale("kk","KZ");
System.out.println(kk.getDisplayLanguage(kk));

outputs: Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

I’m trying to solve this problem, last code has to output like this: Қазақша (Қазақстан).

Anybody knows solution?

Any guesses (or ways to contact with Java SE developer, or with who know algorithms) I will note as answer 😉

Thank you!

Answer 1

Assuming that you run on Windows, you need to change the locale in the OS Regional Settings.
Please see this link. (On win 2000 Kazakh appears, however, on win 7 it does not appear in the list…). On linux you can set the locale with the localedef utility.

Good Luck!