Re: FW: Specifying a locale

From: addison@inter-locale.com
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 04:25:44 EDT


The standard way to form locale IDs is as follows:

ll_CC.variant

where:

ll = language code from ISO639
CC = country code from ISO3166

This is the locale model used by UNIX-like systems and the POSIX model
used as an adjunct in Win32 systems. Java uses a very similar model for
its codes.

Generally speaking, most locales can be identified with just a language or
language-country combination.

Check out my (Java) locale demo page at
http://www.inter-locale.com/demos/locales.jsp to see how this looks.

Hope this helps.

Addison

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