Locale

A Locale object is used to represent a place (region/country). There are many Java operations that require Locale and are refered as Locale specific operations.

For example, getting instance of currency required Locale.

Code:

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Locale locale = Locale.UK;
String string = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale).format(77.45);
System.out.println(string);

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Output:

Code:

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£77.45

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