Thanks for the details. Had a look earlier at the code mentioned by
Jibber-Jabber
as you mentioned. Will post the status as soon as I try this out.

Cheers
Anish

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM, <uwe.dauernh...@betalo.se> wrote:

> Java’s Locale.getDefault returns (if not overridden) the values from the
> system property “user.language” and “user.region”. If these are not set, it
> simply returns “en”. See http://hg.openjdk.java.net/
> jdk8u/jdk8u60/jdk/file/935758609767/src/share/
> classes/java/util/Locale.java
>
> For Linux: These system properties (if not overridden) are set on Linux by
> interpreting the environment variable “LANG”. See https://docs.oracle.com/
> javame/config/cdc/cdc-opt-impl/ojmeec/1.0/runtime/html/localization.htm
>
> Thus the equivalent code in Go would be to access this environment
> variable. Thus a simple `locale = os.Getenv("LANG")` or as Jibber-Jabber
> does it:
>
> ```
> locale = os.Getenv("LC_ALL")
>         if locale == "" {
>                 locale = os.Getenv("LANG")
>         }
> ```
>
> If it is correct that, as you stated, that you have no access to
> environment variables, you won’t be able to conclude more than “en” to be
> compatible with Java’s behavior.
>
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