title: Determining user locale on server side in GWT app
body: <p>If I set the client locale in a GWT application by inserting the following line into the header of the main html/jsp file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="gwt:property" content="locale=af_ZA"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works nicely client side and I can make use of the built in i18n support for GWT.</p>
  
  <p>But how can I read this locale again from the server side. I have tried using calling getLocale() on the HttpservletRequest but this does not give me the desired result (tt returns en_US which I think is probably the browser locale instead).</p>