Java 7 default locale

Question

I have just installed jre7 and I\'m surprised to see that my default locale is now en_US. With jre6 it was de_CH.

What is different with jre7? Is the default locale

Answer 1

The change is described quite well in this blog post and on the compatibility page.

Note that you can revert to the old behavior by setting the sun.locale.formatasdefault system property to true.