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What is locale?

But Nevertheless, the set of locale parameters is much broader than just the parameter for language is not the only part of the locale topic. Any operation that requires a locale to perform its task is locale-sensitive. For example, even displaying a number is may be a locale-sensitive operation: the number should be formatted according to the conventions of the user's native country, region, or culture.

Locale-sensitive parameters

The following is a list of the most common locale parameters that one should be aware of when implementing a locale-sensitive operation:

• Language
  • e.g. For instance, British English: en_UKGB vs American English: en_US
  • For configuration in Magnolia please see the Site and AdminCentral locales page for more information.
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  • See the AdminCentral and public locales page for configuration in Magnolia and java.util.Locale .
• Time zone
  • Nine
  Timezone
  • For example, nine standard time zones in the USA, for example.
    
  • For configuration in Magnolia please see See the Time zone subpage for more informationand java.util.TimeZone .
• Date-time format
  • UK: 14 March 2016 vs US: March 14, 2016 . For details see java.text.DateFormat .
• Number format
  
  • English: 3.14 vs Czech: 3,14 , for details see java.text.NumberFormat .
• Paper size
  
  • US, Canada and other countries: ANSI Letter vs ISO A4 in many other nations.
• Currency format setting
  • Please refer to Currency codes - ISO 4217, listing currency codes used in banking and business globally.

See also

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Further resources

• Internationalization: Understanding Locale in the Java Platform (by John O'Conner)
• Locale (computer software) (Wikipedia)
• Decimal mark: Influence of calculators and computers (Wikipedia)
• Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter - ISO 216:2007
• Country Codes - ISO 3166