title: iReport: How to format date based on French locale
body: <p>I have a problem with formatting date in <em>iReport</em></p>
  
  <p>An my pc I configured the locale language as <em>French</em> but when the <em>iReport</em> generate the reports I find the date formated with <em>English</em> locale.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a few code from my <em>jrxml</em> file : </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;band height="41" splitType="Stretch"&gt;
      &lt;textField pattern="dd/MM/yyyy h.mm a"&gt;
          &lt;reportElement uuid="fb711e77-c949-4a99-9b52-109aae00c8ed" x="87" y="19" width="100" height="20"/&gt;
          &lt;textElement/&gt;
          &lt;textFieldExpression&gt;&lt;![CDATA[$P{datenow}]]&gt;&lt;/textFieldExpression&gt;
      &lt;/textField&gt;
      &lt;staticText&gt;
          &lt;reportElement uuid="51fb76a0-829e-4c36-b474-3ff9c7d4c239" x="41" y="19" width="48" height="20"/&gt;
          &lt;textElement&gt;
              &lt;font isBold="true" isItalic="true"/&gt;
          &lt;/textElement&gt;
          &lt;text&gt;&lt;![CDATA[Fes Le : ]]&gt;&lt;/text&gt;
      &lt;/staticText&gt;
  &lt;/band&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here is how it is displayed for me: <em><code>Fri Sep 28 09:59:00</code></em></p>
  
  <p>My target format is: <em><code>vendredi 28 septembre 2012 09:59</code></em> (in <em>French</em>)</p>
  
  <p>Do you have any idea?</p>