Translate country name into other language

Question

I searched for a solution, but I have not found any.

I have this kind of information:

String locale = "en_GB";
String country = "Japonia"; //It means Japan in polish

I need to translate the country name "Japonia" into language indicated in string locale, so "Japan". Is there any way to do it?

Answer 1

Assuming you know both the input language and the desired output language, an alternative approach - iterate the Locale(s) on the system using Locale.getAvailableLocales(), test if the country name matches from the desired in Locale - if so display it in the desired output Locale using getDisplayCountry(Locale)

String country = "Japonia";
Locale outLocale = Locale.forLanguageTag("en_GB");
Locale inLocale = Locale.forLanguageTag("pl-PL");
for (Locale l : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
    if (l.getDisplayCountry(inLocale).equals(country)) {
        System.out.println(l.getDisplayCountry(outLocale));
        break;
    }
}

Outputs

Japan

And if you modify the outLocale like

Locale outLocale = Locale.forLanguageTag("es-SP");

you get

Japón