Platform: RedHat Linux 6.2 (x86) Distributed by RedHat,Inc (Ireland Limited)

Environment: Gnome/KDE

version number of Kernel: 2.2.14-6.1.1

Locale: de (German)

Installed version of JDK: j2sdk-1_3_1-beta-bin-b13-linux-i386-05_jan_2001.sh

1. open a terminal "xterm", set the locale to ie: de or fr at the terminal.
   a. locale -a | more
   b. export LANG=de; export LC_ALL=de

2. Problem: the locale not being able to get picked up by "java" program.
   Instead it still displays the default locale "en_US"

   The following is the program used to test the bug:

      import java.util.*;

public class lo{

        public static void main(String args[]){

                String s = " ";
                String s2 = " ";

                Locale de = Locale.getDefault();
                s2 = de.getLanguage();
                s = de.toString();

                System.out.println(" " + s + " " + s2);
        }
}



wai.cheung@ireland 2001-01-18