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The [GNU convention|http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Names.html] for naming your locale(7) takes forms such as

    ''ll''<br>
    ''ll''&#95;''cc''<br>
    ''ll''.''enc''<br>
    ''ll''&#95;''cc''.''enc''

where ''ll'' is an [ISO] 639 language code (lowercase), ''cc'' is an [ISO] 3166 country code (uppercase), and ''enc'' is an encoding (uppercase). For example

    <tt>en_GB</tt> -- British English<br>
    <tt>en_NZ.UTF-8</tt> -- New Zealand English, UTF-8 encoding<br>
    <tt>ja</tt> -- Japanese language<br>
    <tt>ja.SJIS</tt> -- Japanese language, Shift-JIS encoding<br>
    <tt>ja_JP.UTF-8</tt> -- Japanese language, UTF-8 encoding, as used in Japan

There is also a special locale, just named “<tt>C</tt>”, which just means “no localization”.

These names are used as directory names for holding the corresponding localization information in <tt>/usr/share/X11/locale/</tt>''localename''<tt>/</tt>.

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Last edited on Monday, June 1, 2009 7:40:48 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro

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