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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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How to validate a locale in java?

I read a file in an application that specifies a language code: public void setResources(String locale) { // validate locale // ULocale lo = new ULocale(locale); // System.out.println(lo.getDisplayCountry()); } that must be in the…
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Locale codes for iPhone lproj folders

Where would I find a list of locale name abbreviations for my project localization folders? (Such as en for English, fr for French). I am looking to do German, Spanish and others.
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python locale strange error. what's going on here exactly?

So today I upgraded to bazaar 2.0.2, and I started receiving this message (I'm on snow leopard, btw): bzr: warning: unknown locale: UTF-8 Could not determine what text encoding to use. This error usually means your Python interpreter doesn't…
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PHP intl country code 2 chars to country name

I'm trying to convert, using PHP, 2 characters country codes (ISO 3166-1) to country names, or intl country codes, so I can translate the country name. Using Locale::getDisplayRegion needs locale codes for languages (nl_NL) and all I have is the 2…
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number_to_currency locale converting

Why does number_to_currency(33.50, :locale => :fr) displaying $33.50? It should display it in different currency based on the locale. I would expect a result of 33,50 €. Thanks a lot!
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Why might Resources.getString() intermittently return strings from the wrong locale?

I have an Android application with English strings in values/strings.xml. For each string in that file, I have an entry in values-ja/strings.xml with the Japanese translation of that string. If I set the emulator, a Nexus One or Nexus S to Japanese,…
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Unable to locate package language-pack-en

On my NodeJS server (running as docker image)... Dockerfile FROM node:4.8-slim RUN apt-get update -y && \ apt-get install -yqq locales git ...there is no english locale installed: RUN locale -a gives me C C.UTF-8 POSIX In my dockerfile I try…
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Get language name in that language from language code

I have a list of language codes (as in "en", "es"...) I need to display in those language like this: English Español Français Deutsch 日本語 Is there any built-in API to get these in Android or should I map them myself?
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Various country's "currency decimal places width" in the iPhone-SDK

I read about NSLocaleCurrencySymbol, but where would I find the variable used to determine the "number of decimal places" used in a country's currency? I.E. In the USA, it's common to see dollar amounts written with 2 decimal places: $1.23 What…
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Set locale to system default UTF-8

When running R inside rApache, the locale is inherited from the Apache webserver, and therefore Sys.getlocale() is always equal to "C". I would like my web application to use UTF8, so I use: Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", 'en_US.UTF-8') However this…
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Who is responsible for deleting the facet?

I have a function that uses the Boost.DateTime library for generating the current GMT/UTC date and time string (live example). std::string get_curr_date() { auto date =…
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is there a way to find list of valid locales in my linux using perl?

I need to find a list of locale installed/supported in my linux machine. is there a way to find a list of valid locales in my linux using perl ? thanks
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Dynamically change locale for DatePipe in Angular 2

I'm making an Angular project where the user has the ability to switch languages. Is it possible to make the locale dynamic? I have seen that you can add it in the NgModule, but I'm guessing it's not dynamic when I put it there? Or can I change it…
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Java 7 default locale

I have just installed jre7 and I'm surprised to see that my default locale is now en_US. With jre6 it was de_CH. What is different with jre7? Is the default locale no more the one of the Operating System? (btw, I'm using Windows7) Thx for your…
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How to hack GHCi (or Hugs) so that it prints Unicode chars unescaped?

Look at the problem: Normally, in the interactive Haskell environment, non-Latin Unicode characters (that make a part of the results) are printed escaped, even if the locale allows such characters (as opposed to direct output through putStrLn,…
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