Need to parse Japanese Full Date Format

Question

Hi,
Locale japanLocale = Locale.JAPAN;
SimpleDateFormat fullDateFormat = (SimpleDateFormat) SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL, japanLocale);
String dateValue = 2010'?'09'?'12'?' 1'?'15'?'45'?'GMT // Here Japanese character will come instead of ?
DateFormat initialDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(fullPattern, japanLocale);
Date date = initialDateFormat.parse(dateValue);
String formattedDate = fullDateFormat.format(date);
This throws Exception java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2010'?'09'?'12'?' 1'?'15'
?'45'?'GMT"
If you send some good suggestions, it will be appreciable.
Thanks in Advance
Suresh

Answer 1

Japanese full pattern is:
"yyyy'年'M'月'd'日' (EEEE)
H'時'mm'分'ss'秒' z"
I need to parse this string.
OK:
String pattern = "yyyy'年'M'月'd'日' (EEEE) H'時'mm'分'ss'秒' z";
String date = "2004年8月12日 (木曜日) 13時56分01秒 EEST";
SimpleDateFormat parser = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, Locale.JAPAN);
Date d = parser.parse(date);
System.out.println(d); // prints Thu Aug 12 13:56:01 EEST 2004
Note that for the sake of portability the two first lines should be written asString pattern = "yyyy'\u5e74'M'\u6708'd'\u65e5' (EEEE) H'\u6642'mm'\u5206'ss'\u79d2' z";
String date = "2004\u5e748\u670812\u65e5 (\u6728\u66dc\u65e5) 13\u664256\u520601\u79d2 EEST";This is to make it possible to compile your code on a platform that doesn't support Japanese script.
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