How to change locale to use Latin Serbian (instead of Cyrillic Serbian)

The Serbian language has Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. In Android's Date and Time Picker widgets, the displayed alphabet for Serbian locales seems to be Cyrillic, as seen here.

I wanted to change the locale so that the android widgets are using the Latin Serbian alphabet.

The current language/country code (yielding Cyrillic) are sr and RS respectively. Therefore, my setLocale function is called as

setLocale("sr", "RS"); 

This is the part im not sure about - according to localeplanet.com, the local code for latin serbian is sr_Latn_RS. However, I tried both

setLocale("sr_Latn", "RS"); //and setLocale("sr_Latn_RS", "RS"); 

neither of which work (no change occurs, default to english). According to the Android documentation, it looks like setLocale expects two letter codes.

The language codes are two-letter lowercase ISO language codes (such as "en") as defined by ISO 639-1. The country codes are two-letter uppercase ISO country codes (such as "US") as defined by ISO 3166-1. The variant codes are unspecified.

So how do I specify Cyrllic serbian?

2 Answers

Answers 1

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i found these two answers suitable to your query android custom date-picker SO and locale from english to french.

Answers 2

Can you please use below one ?

public class MyApplication extends Application {     @Override     public void onCreate() {         super.onCreate();          Resources res = this.getResources();         Configuration conf = res.getConfiguration();         boolean isLatinAlphabet = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);          if(conf.locale.getLanguage().equals("sr") && isLatinAlphabet) {             conf.locale = new Locale("sr", "YourContryCode");             res.updateConfiguration(conf, res.getDisplayMetrics());         }     } } 

Note: Replace your YourContryCode in conf.locale = new Locale("sr", "YourContryCode"); line.

Manifest.xml:

<application         android:name=".MyApplication"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"         android:label="@string/application_name"         android:theme="@style/AppTheme">     ...  </application> 

Hope this will help you.

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