How to find if a locale is supported by given encoding?

[jaibarde]

Hi,

I have a need to show list of locales into a field on a wizard ( a Java based application). But these locales should be such that they are supported by the current character set (encoding) selected by the user on his machine. Is there any Java utility function or set of function or package, using which, I can somehow figure out my current character set / encoding would support the given locale?



Thanks,

~jaideep

[JosAH]

Hi,

I have a need to show list of locales into a field on a wizard ( a Java based application). But these locales should be such that they are supported by the current character set (encoding) selected by the user on his machine. Is there any Java utility function or set of function or package, using which, I can somehow figure out my current character set / encoding would support the given locale?

The coupling between fonts, locales and encodings is very weak, e.g. you can write Croatian using a Japanese character set or write Russian using an ordinary ASCII character set. Your best bet are the Font.canDisplay ( ... ) and Font.canDisplay UpTo( ... ) methods; read their API documentation.

kind regards,

Jos

[jaibarde]

Thanks Jos,
I'll go through the documentation and get back to you in case of more doubts.
~jaideep