From ad3b5799d401e4be9b2a3bd0e30127449afab3a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Stefan=20Gasterst=C3=A4dt?=
 <157380642+antagoony@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:53:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] reuse internal Locale's cache instead of custom cache

---
 .../src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/runner/Runner.java        | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cucumber-core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/runner/Runner.java b/cucumber-core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/runner/Runner.java
index dbf6b6d15d..97de369009 100644
--- a/cucumber-core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/runner/Runner.java
+++ b/cucumber-core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/runner/Runner.java
@@ -22,10 +22,8 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
-import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import static io.cucumber.core.exception.ExceptionUtils.throwAsUncheckedException;
@@ -42,7 +40,6 @@ public final class Runner {
     private final Collection<? extends Backend> backends;
     private final Options runnerOptions;
     private final ObjectFactory objectFactory;
-    private final Map<String, Locale> localeCache = new HashMap<>();
     private List<SnippetGenerator> snippetGenerators;
 
     public Runner(
@@ -84,7 +81,7 @@ public void runPickle(Pickle pickle) {
 
     private Locale localeForPickle(Pickle pickle) {
         String language = pickle.getLanguage();
-        return localeCache.computeIfAbsent(language, (lang) -> new Locale(language));
+        return new Locale.Builder().setLanguage(language).build();
     }
 
     public void runBeforeAllHooks() {