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In computing, locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.
Locales identifiers can be defined in several ways:
- Locale Identifier (LCID) on Windows, a number such as 0x0409 for English in the United States or 0x0411 for Japanese in Japan.
- In XML, Windows .NET, Java and other Unicode based environments, they are defined in a format similar to RFC 3066 or one of its successors. They are usually defined with just ISO 639 and ISO 3166 codes.
- On Unix, Linux and other POSIX type platforms, they are defined similar to the RFC 3066 definition, but the locale variant modifier is defined differently, and the charset is included as a part of the identifier. It is defined in this format [language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]]
See also
- Internationalization and localization
- ISO 639 language codes
- ISO 3166 country codes
- Charsets : e.g. UTF-8
- Common Locale Data Repository
External links
- RFC 3066 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt)
- Registration of Special RFC 3066 Language Tags (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tags)
- Common Locale Data Repository (http://www.unicode.org/cldr/)
- LCID information from Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_2jzn.asp)
- POSIX Environment Variables (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html)
- Low Level Technical details on defining a POSIX locale (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html)
- Locale Explorer (http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/demo/locales)
- Debian Wiki on Locales (http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Locale)
- Article "The Standard C++ Locale (http://cantrip.org/locale.html)" by Nathan C. Myers
- java.util.Locale (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html)
- Internationalization services (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-locale.html) - Python Library Reference