de.folt.util
Class LanguageHandling

java.lang.Object
  de.folt.util.LanguageHandling

public class LanguageHandling
extends java.lang.Object

This class contains several methods for handling standard language codes. Language codes are read from a file and stored in a hash table. The file format looks currently like this (lancodes.txt in the in directory.
A language can be accessed in various ways: (Example Abkhazian=ab)
the short name: ab
the long name: Abkhazian
the combined name: Abkhazian ab

 Afar=aa
 Abkhazian=ab
 Afrikaans=af
 ...
 Arabic (Egypt)=ar-eg
 Arabic (Jordan)=ar-jo
 Arabic (Kuwait)=ar-kw

Actually three tables are used which have the following structure (Example Abkhazian=ab) *

 
        languagecombinedtable     Key: "Abkhazian ab"   Value: "ab"
        lanshorttable             Key: "Abkhazian"      Value: "ab"
        lanlongtable              Key: "ab"             Value: "Abkhazian"
        

Author:

klemens

Constructor Summary

LanguageHandling()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getCombinedLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode(java.lang.String language) getCombinedLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode return the combined language code from a short language looking like this "ab" -> "ab Abkhazian" Method uses hash table lanlongtable to get the correct language.
static java.lang.String[]	getCombinedLanguages() getCombinedLanguages return a sorted array of language codes
static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	getLanguagecodetable()
static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	getLanlongtable()
static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	getLanshorttable()
static java.lang.String	getLongLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode(java.lang.String language) getLongLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode return the long language code from a short language looking like this "ab" -> "Abkhazian" Method uses hash table lanlongtable to get the correct language.
static java.lang.String[]	getLongLanguages() getLongLanguages return a sorted array of language codes
static java.lang.String	getShortLanguageCodeFromCombinedTable(java.lang.String language) getShortLanguageCodeFromCombinedTable return the short language code for a language looking like this "Abkhazian ab" Method uses hash table languagecombinedtable to get the correct language.
static java.lang.String	getShortLanguageCodeFromLongLanguageCode(java.lang.String language) getShortLanguageCodeFromLongLanguageCode return the short language code from a long language looking like this "Abkhazian" -> "ab" Method uses hash table lanshorttable to get the correct language.
static java.lang.String[]	getShortLanguages() getShortLanguages return a sorted array of the short language codes
static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	readLanguageCodesFromFile() readLanguageCodesFromFile read the language codes from a default file (lancodes.txt in the ini directory)
static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>	readLanguageCodesFromFile(java.lang.String langCodeFileName) readLanguageCodesFromFile read the language codes from a file

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LanguageHandling

public LanguageHandling()

Method Detail

getCombinedLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode

public static java.lang.String getCombinedLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode(java.lang.String language)

getCombinedLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode return the combined language code from a short language looking like this "ab" -> "ab Abkhazian"
Method uses hash table lanlongtable to get the correct language.

Parameters:

language - the short name of a language, e.g. "ab"

Returns:

the short language code, e.g. "ab Abkhazian"

getCombinedLanguages

public static java.lang.String[] getCombinedLanguages()

getCombinedLanguages return a sorted array of language codes

Returns:

the sorted array with the combined language codes

getLanguagecodetable

public static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> getLanguagecodetable()

Returns:

the languagecodetable

getLanlongtable

public static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> getLanlongtable()

Returns:

the lanlongtable

getLanshorttable

public static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> getLanshorttable()

Returns:

the lanshorttable

getLongLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode

public static java.lang.String getLongLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode(java.lang.String language)

getLongLanguageCodeFromShortLanguageCode return the long language code from a short language looking like this "ab" -> "Abkhazian"
Method uses hash table lanlongtable to get the correct language.

Parameters:

language - the long name of a language, e.g. "ab"

Returns:

the short language code, e.g. "Abkhazian"

getLongLanguages

public static java.lang.String[] getLongLanguages()

getLongLanguages return a sorted array of language codes

Returns:

the sorted array with the combined language codes

getShortLanguageCodeFromCombinedTable

public static java.lang.String getShortLanguageCodeFromCombinedTable(java.lang.String language)

getShortLanguageCodeFromCombinedTable return the short language code for a language looking like this "Abkhazian ab"
Method uses hash table languagecombinedtable to get the correct language.

Parameters:

language - the long name of a language, e.g. "Abkhazian ab"

Returns:

the short language code, e.g. "ab"

getShortLanguageCodeFromLongLanguageCode

public static java.lang.String getShortLanguageCodeFromLongLanguageCode(java.lang.String language)

getShortLanguageCodeFromLongLanguageCode return the short language code from a long language looking like this "Abkhazian" -> "ab"
Method uses hash table lanshorttable to get the correct language.

Parameters:

language - the long name of a language, e.g. "Abkhazian"

Returns:

the short language code, e.g. "ab"

getShortLanguages

public static java.lang.String[] getShortLanguages()

getShortLanguages return a sorted array of the short language codes

Returns:

the sorted array with the short language codes

readLanguageCodesFromFile

public static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> readLanguageCodesFromFile()

readLanguageCodesFromFile read the language codes from a default file (lancodes.txt in the ini directory)

Returns:

a hash table key short code - value long language code - Key: Abkhazian ab Value: ab

readLanguageCodesFromFile

public static java.util.Hashtable<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> readLanguageCodesFromFile(java.lang.String langCodeFileName)

readLanguageCodesFromFile read the language codes from a file

Parameters:

langCodeFileName - the file name to use

Returns:

a hash table key short code - value long language code - Key: Abkhazian ab Value: ab