Package com.castlabs.utils

Class LanguageUtils

java.lang.Object

com.castlabs.utils.LanguageUtils

public class LanguageUtils
extends Object

This object contains enums and utilities for working with language tags. Language tags are defined as in [RFC 5646] and the matching criteria as in [RFC 4647]

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LanguageUtils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Locale	fromString(String languageTag)	Translates simple language tags like "en" or "en-EN" into Locales.
static String	mapISO6392BtoISO6392T(String langCode)	Locale supports only ISO 639-2/T and not ISO 639-2/B thus failing for languages whose two codes differ, e.g.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

LanguageUtils

public LanguageUtils()

Method Details

fromString

public static Locale fromString(String languageTag)

Translates simple language tags like "en" or "en-EN" into Locales. NOTE that if you are using Android API >= 21 and Java 7, you can use the more powerful Locale.forLanguageTag(String).

Parameters:

languageTag - in complete form (e.g. "en-EN") or in truncated ("en")

Returns:

Locale instance

mapISO6392BtoISO6392T

@NonNull
public static String mapISO6392BtoISO6392T(@NonNull
 String langCode)

Locale supports only ISO 639-2/T and not ISO 639-2/B thus failing for languages whose two codes differ, e.g. Chinese (zho/chi) or Czech (ces/cze) only one of the two is supported.

This method remaps the values. Mapping extracted from: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php