Monday January 31, 2005

[Basic] Language Vs Locale There has always been confusion between language and locale. Language : It's a system of gestures, sounds, symbols, or words used for communication i.e. French, English, Chinese etc... Locale : Definition of language and country settings for a system. This would include time, date, currency, special characters, numbers. It general has the following formation : language_country[.codeset][@modifier] Examples * en_IE (English_Ireland) :: Also known as Irish locale. Tuesday February 1 10:56:24 GMT 2005 * de_CH (German_Switzerland) :: Also known as German-Swiss locale. Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005, 10:56:24 Uhr GMT * en_US (English_America) :: Also known as Amercian locale. Tue Feb 1 16:25:26 GMT 2005 ( Jan 31 2005, 05:07:07 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]