Locale Naming
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Definition
The Free Standards Group Open Internationalisation Initiative defines the Locale using the folloing namespace:
<lang>_<territory>.<codeset>[@<modifiers>]
The parts explained:
<lang> = Language Code <territory> = Country Code <codeset> = Character Encoding (if omitted, locale default is assumed) <modifiers> = Locale Modifiers
Examples
fr_CA.ISO-8859-1 = French Language spoken in Canada using ISO-8859-1 character set
de_DE@euro = German Language spoken in Germany using default character set and using euro sign (modifier)
en_GB.UTF-8 = English Language spoken in United Kingdom using UTF-8 character set