Unsupported ISO 3166 country ES?

Question

My Android app from what I've tested works fine with UK and US locales, but when I change the locale to ES I receive the following error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported ISO 3166 country: es

I've checked ISO 3166 and es is definitely a valid country code. I've tried changing it to upper case, no difference.

Here's the offending code:

Currency myCurrency;
myCurrency = Currency.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Locale names are formed by a language code (lowercase), and an optional country code. You should set the default locale to es-Es. For instance, Locale.US is actually en-US.

Answer 2

Try this:

Currency.getInstance(new Locale("es", "ES"));