Re: Access to LANG var from Java programs?

[Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net>]

0> In article <[🔎] 200210070909.22652.egonw@sci.kun.nl>,
0> E. L. Willighagen <URL:mailto:egonw@sci.kun.nl> ("Egon") wrote:

Egon> working on internationalizing some OS Java tools, I was wondering
Egon> how to access bash export variables, one specific being LANG...
Egon>
Egon> The method System.getProperty() seems only to handle things like
Egon> "-Dlang=en_EN" as a command line option, and yes, the wrapper
Egon> could as such transfer the $LANG value to the Java program.
Egon>
Egon> But, is there no more direct way of accessing the $LANG var from
Egon> within the Java program itself?

Locale.getDefault() works for me:

$ LANG=en_GB java LocaleTest
en_GB
$ LANG=en_IE java LocaleTest
en_IE


Here's the code:

public final class LocaleTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(java.util.Locale.getDefault().toString());
    }
}