Java Locale - toString() Method

The java.util.Locale.toString() method returns a string representation of this Locale object, consisting of language, country, variant, script, and extensions as below:

language + "_" + country + "_" + (variant + "_#" | "#") + script + "-" + extensions

Language is always lower case, country is always upper case, script is always title case, and extensions are always lower case.

Syntax

public final String toString()

Parameters

No parameter is required.

Return Value

Returns a string representation of the Locale, for debugging.

Exception

NA

Example:

In the example below, the java.util.Locale.toString() method is used to get a string representation of the given Locale object.

import java.util.*;

public class MyClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    //creating a locale
    Locale loc = new Locale("th", "TH", "TH");

    //printing the locale
    System.out.println("loc is: " + loc);

    //creating a string representation of the locale
    String locString = loc.toString();

    //printing the string representation of the locale
    System.out.println("locString is: " + loc.toString());
  }
}

The output of the above code will be:

loc is: th_TH_TH_#u-nu-thai
locString is: th_TH_TH_#u-nu-thai