Monnet Language Interface

Monnet Language Interface replacing Java's built-in Locale class with a richer model compliant with ISO-639, ISO-3166-1, ISO-15924 and RFC 4646.

Features

• all languages specified in ISO 639-1 are represented here, and others can be

• created as desired. Languages can be obtained as follows:

  • Directly, e.g., Language.ENGLISH
  • By defining a regional or script variation, e.g., Language.ENGLISH.getRegionalVariant(Region.UNITED_KINGDOM)
  • By looking up an ISO code Language.getByIso639_1("en")
  • By looking up an IETF code Language.get("en-GB")
  • By creating a new instance Language.getInstance("German","Deutsch","de","deu","deu")

• Language tags follow the IETF language tag model, as described in RFC 4646. The format of the tags is as follows:

  language (-script)? (-region)? (-variant)* (-extension)* (-privateuse)?

• The string form of these may be obtained as follows

  • The full tag can be obtained by calling toString()
  • The language by calling getIso639_1() (two letter code), getIso639_2() or getIso639_3() (three letter code)
  • The script by calling getScript()
  • The region by calling getRegion()
  • The variant(s) by calling getVariants()
  • The extension(s) by calling getExtensions()
  • The private use by calling getPrivateUse()