Setting Turkish and English locale: translate Turkish characters to Latin equivalents

Question

I want to translate my Turkish strings to lowercase in both English and Turkish locale. I\'m doing this:

String myString=\"YAŞAT BAYRI\";
Locale trlocale= new Lo         


        

Answer 1

If you are using the Locale constructor, you can and must set the language, country and variant as separate arguments:

new Locale(language)
new Locale(language, country)
new Locale(language, country, variant)

Therefore, your test program creates locales with the language "tr-TR" and "en_US". For your test program, you can use new Locale("tr", "TR") and new Locale("en", "US").

If you are using Java 1.7+, then you can also parse a language tag using Locale.forLanguageTag:

String myString="YASAT BAYRI";
Locale trlocale= Locale.forLanguageTag("tr-TR");
Locale enLocale = Locale.forLanguageTag("en_US");

Creates strings that have the appropriate lower case for the language.