How can I force Eclipse to show English on console?

Question

I tried to use date variable and show on console using format but it shows Thai. How can I force it to show English?

Date dNow = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat ("E M y 'at' hh:mm:ss");
System.out.println(ft.format(dNow));

The result is

พ. 12 2558 at 09:06:32

ps. expected result

Thursday 12 2015 at 09:06:32

I have tried this way but it doesn't work. How to set eclipse console locale/language

Answer 1

You can force your eclipse to be in english language completely:

• Go to the directory where you "installed" eclipse
• Open the file "eclipse.ini" (preferrably with some editor that shows the linebreaks)
• Insert the line "-Duser.language=en_US" at the end of the file

and voila your eclipse should be in english language and all Locales will be in english!

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If you don't want to change the language of your eclipse or this doesn't work for some reason you can always apply the Locale you're working in manually:

Date dNow = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat ("E M y 'at' hh:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
System.out.println(ft.format(dNow));