org.jboss.portal.common.i18n
Class I18NTools

java.lang.Object
  org.jboss.portal.common.i18n.I18NTools

public class I18NTools
extends java.lang.Object

Version:

$Revision: 7228 $

Author:

Julien Viet

Constructor Summary

I18NTools()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	computeTrailingName(java.util.Locale locale) Compute the trailing name for a given locale.
static java.lang.String	getRFC3066LanguageTagFor(java.util.Locale locale) Retrieves the language identification tag associated to the specified Locale as defined by IETF RFC 3066 limited to 2-letter language code per ISO standard 639, a "-" (dash) and a 2-letter country code per ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

I18NTools

public I18NTools()

Method Detail

getRFC3066LanguageTagFor

public static java.lang.String getRFC3066LanguageTagFor(java.util.Locale locale)

Retrieves the language identification tag associated to the specified Locale as defined by IETF RFC 3066 limited to 2-letter language code per ISO standard 639, a "-" (dash) and a 2-letter country code per ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes. E.g. "en-US" for American English, "en-GB" for British English, etc.

Parameters:

locale - the locale which language tag is wanted

Returns:

a IETF RFC 3066-compatible language tag.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the given locale is not valid

Since:

2.4

computeTrailingName

public static java.lang.String computeTrailingName(java.util.Locale locale)
                                            throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Compute the trailing name for a given locale.

Parameters:

locale - the locale

Returns:

the trailing name

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if locale is null