Internationalization

Unicode extensions

Following extensions are supported:

• ca-extension
  - Specifies the preferred calendar in the static ChronoFormatter-methods ofGenericCalendarStyle(), ofGenericCalendarPattern() and ofGenericMomentPattern().
  - Illustrating example:
  

  	Locale loc = Locale.forLanguageTag("de-u-ca-persian");
  	ChronoFormatter<CalendarDate> f = ChronoFormatter.ofGenericCalendarStyle(DisplayMode.MEDIUM, loc);
  	System.out.println(f.format(SystemClock.inLocalView().today()));
  	// example output: AP 1393 Farwardin 10, Sonntag
  

• nu-extension
  - Determines the number system to be used in formatting numerals.
  - Example expression for setting Thai numerals:
  

  	Locale loc = Locale.forLanguageTag("th-TH-u-nu-" + NumberSystem.THAI.getCode());
  	ChronoFormatter<PlainDate> f = ChronoFormatter.ofDatePattern("MM/dd/yyyy", PatternType.CLDR, loc);
  	System.out.println(f.format(SystemClock.inLocalView().today()));
  	// example output: ๑๑/๒๐/๒๐๑๘
  

• fw-extension
  - Specifies the first day of week.
  - Illustrating example:
  

  	Locale locale = Locale.forLanguageTag("en-US-u-fw-mon");
  	assertThat(Weekmodel.of(locale), is(Weekmodel.of(Weekday.MONDAY, 1)));
  

• hc-extension
  - Overrides the locale-specific hour cycle with the possible values h11, h12, h23 and h24.
  - Illustrating example:
  

          Moment m = Moment.UNIX_EPOCH.plus(14, TimeUnit.HOURS);
          Locale locale = Locale.forLanguageTag("de-DE-u-hc-h12");
          TZID berlin = () -> "Europe/Berlin";
          assertThat(
              ChronoFormatter.ofMomentStyle(
                  FormatStyle.FULL, FormatStyle.FULL, locale, berlin).print(m),
              is("Donnerstag, 1. Januar 1970 um 3:00:00 nachm. Mitteleuropäische Zeit"));
  

• rg-extension
  - Specifies the region or country consisting of 6 characters which start with the ISO-3166-code and end with ZZZZ.
  - Illustrating example: Locale.forLanguageTag("en-u-rg-USZZZZ") is an alternative for Locale.US.

Supported ISO-639-codes

Following 95 language codes have extended support in Time4J-v5.9.1 beyond the capabilities of standard Java:

Code	Language (English)	Language (native)	Remark
af	Afrikaans	Afrikaans
am	Amharic	አማርኛ
ar	Arabic	العربية
as	Assamese	অসমীয়া
ast	Asturian	Asturianu	ISO-639-2
az	Azerbaijani	azərbaycan dili
be	Belarusian	беларуская мова
bg	Bulgarian	български език
bn	Bengali	বাংলা
br	Breton	brezhoneg
bs	Bosnian	bosanski jezik
ca	Catalan	català	alias: Valencian
cs	Czech	čeština
cy	Welsh	Cymraeg
da	Danish	dansk
de	German	Deutsch
ee	Ewe	Eʋegbe
el	Greek	ελληνικά	modern
en	English	English
eo	Esperanto	Esperanto	constructed
es	Spanish	Español
et	Estonian	eesti
eu	Basque	euskara
fa	Persian	فارسی	alias: Farsi
fi	Finnish	suomi
fil	Filipino	Wikang Filipino	alias: Tagalog (tl), ISO-639-2
fo	Faroese	føroyskt
fr	French	française
fy	Frisian	Frysk	western
ga	Irish	Gaeilge
gd	Gaelic	Gàidhlig	alias: Scottish
gl	Galician	Galego
gsw	Swiss German	Schwyzerdütsch
gu	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી
he	Hebrew	עברית	alias: Hebrew (iw)
hi	Hindi	हिन्दी, हिंदी
hr	Croatian	hrvatski jezik
hu	Hungarian	magyar
hy	Armenian	Հայերեն
id	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	alias: Indonesian (in)
in	Indonesian		old code (use: id)
is	Icelandic	Íslenska
it	Italian	Italiano
iw	Hebrew		old code (use: he)
ja	Japanese	日本語 (にほんご)
ka	Georgian	ქართული
kab	Kabyle	Tamaziɣt Taqbaylit	ISO-639-2
kk	Kazakh	қазақ тілі
km	Khmer	ខ្មែរ	alias: Cambodian
kn	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ
ko	Korean	한국어
ku *)	Kurdish	Kurdî	macro language
ky	Kirghiz	Кыргызча
lb	Luxembourgish	Lëtzebuergesch
lo	Lao	ພາສາລາວ
lt	Lithuanian	lietuvių kalba
lv	Latvian	latviešu valoda
mk	Macedonian	македонски јазик
ml	Malayalam	മലയാളം
mn	Mongolian	Монгол хэл
mr	Marathi	मराठी
ms	Malay	Bahasa Melayu‎
mt **)	Maltese	Malti
my	Burmese	ဗမာစာ
nb	Norwegian Bokmål	Norsk Bokmål	alias: Norwegian (no)
ne	Nepali	नेपाली
nl	Dutch	Nederlands
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk	Norsk Nynorsk
no	Norwegian	Norsk	alias: Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
or	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	alias: Odia
pa	Panjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	alias: Punjabi
pl	Polish	język polski
ps ***)	Pashto	پښتو
pt	Portuguese	Português
ro	Romanian	Română	similar: Moldavian
ru	Russian	русский
sd	Sindhi	सिन्धी
si	Sinhala	සිංහල	alias: Sinhalese
sk	Slovak	Slovenčina
sl	Slovene	Slovenski Jezik	alias: Slovenian
so	Somali	Soomaali
sq	Albanian	Shqip
sr	Serbian	српски језик
sv	Swedish	Svenska
sw	Swahili	Kiswahili
ta	Tamil	தமிழ்
te	Telugu	తెలుగు
th	Thai	ไทย
tk	Turkmen	Türkmen
tl	Tagalog	Wikang Tagalog	alias: Filipino (fil)
to	Tongan	Faka Tonga
tr	Turkish	Türkçe
ug	Uighur	ئۇيغۇرچە
uk	Ukrainian	Українська
ur	Urdu	اردو
uz	Uzbek	Oʻzbek
vi	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt
zh	Chinese	中文
zu	Zulu	isiZulu

^*) No support for formatting relative durations
^**) No support for formatting absolute durations
^***) No support for formatting durations (neither relative nor absolute)

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