Support for JDK and Internationalization

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Support for JDK and Internationalization

The JDK provides a rich set of APIs for developing global applications. These internationalization APIs are based on the Unicode 2.0 code set and can adapt text, numbers, dates, currency, and user-defined objects to any country's conventions.

The internationalization APIs are concentrated in three packages:

The java.text package contains classes and interfaces for handling text in a locale-sensitive way.
The java.io package contains new classes for importing and exporting non-Unicode character data.
The java.util package contains the Locale class, the localization support classes, and new classes for date and time handling.

For more information about JDK internationalization support, see the Sun Microsystems documentation.

Warning:

There is no connection between JDK locales and JDK code sets; you must keep these in agreement. For example, if you select the Japanese locale ja_JP, there is no Java method that tells you that the SJIS code set is the most appropriate.