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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.

Examples of variable output controlled by a locale is whether a date is displayed as 25/12/2012 or 12/25/2012 or some other format, and whether a decimal number is displayed as 123,456.78 or 123.456,78

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Couldn't translate Date to spanish with Locale("es_ES")

I'm trying to do a simple date format, it does work great, it's very easy, but the problem is the language. I used the locale "es_ES" to get "Miércoles" instead of "Wednesday" and sorts like that but i failed. Here's my code: SimpleDateFormat…
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Letter "y" comes after "i" when sorting alphabetically

When using function sort(x), where x is a character, the letter "y" jumps into the middle, right after letter "i": > letters [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s" "t" [21] "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z" >…
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Design considerations for internationalization

I've read Joel's article on Unicode and I feel that I have at least a basic grasp of internationalization from a character set perspective. In addition to reading this question, I've also done some of my own research on internationalization in…
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How do I strftime a date object in a different locale?

I have a date object in python and I need to generate a time stamp in the C locale for a legacy system, using the %a (weekday) and %b (month) codes. However I do not wish to change the application's locale, since other parts need to respect the…
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IPython Notebook locale error

After installing the latest Mac OSX 64-bit Anaconda Python distribution, I keep getting a ValueError when trying to start the IPython Notebook. Starting ipython works fine: 3-millerc-~:ipython Python 2.7.3 |Anaconda 1.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, Feb 25…
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Time zone issue involving date fns format()

const dt = new Date('2017-12-12'); console.log(format(dt, 'YYYY-MM-DD')); The above code logs 2017-12-11 in the US, but 2017-12-12 in India. I followed this github thread here and tried out things but am not getting the desired results. My…
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Get locale specific directory in My documents

I have my custom application that generates a directory in My documents path, after installation the application uses that directory, but i got an issue in Chinese windows OS, where my application folder name appears in Chinese, so is there any way…
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Setting java locale settings

When I use the default java locale on my linux machine it comes out with the US locale settings, where do I change this so that it comes out with the correct locale?
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How do I change the locale that JasperReports uses?

The windows installed on my machine has the locale en_AU and that's what JasperReports uses. I already tried changing the locale of all users, including the Administrator but it still uses en_AU. How can I change that locale? Is it possible to…
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Retrieve a list of countries from the android OS

I'm looking for a way to populate a spinner with a list of countries with their names. Can I retrieve it from the Android OS? Can someone please provide me an example?
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How can I list all available windows locales in python console?

On linux we can use locale -a to see the list of locales available. $ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 POSIX Is it possible to do the same from python console on windows? This can be handy when you try to do locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '???')…
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Convert accented characters to their plain ascii equivalents

I have to convert french characters into english on my php. I've used the following code: iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT", $string); But the result for ËËË was "E"E"E. I don't need that double quote and other extra characters - I want to show an…
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RESTful URL: where should I put locale? example.com/en/page vs example.com/page?locale=en

I'm deciding how to organize URL and put locale into it. I have two choices: example.com/en/page example.com/page?locale=en -- Google way en.example.com/page -- isn't good because I'm using subdomains From one side example.com/en/page looks better…
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Convert decimal mark when reading numbers as input

I have a CSV file with data reading that I want to read into Python. I get lists that contain strings like "2,5". Now doing float("2,5") does not work, because it has the wrong decimal mark. How do I read this into Python as 2.5?
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What is a good definition for language code and locale codes?

When to use en_GB and en-GB ? What is the difference ? Is there an ISO name for this ISO 639-1 (language) and ISO 3166 (country) combination ?
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