Locale represents a specific geographical, political, or cultural region. An operation that requires a locale to perform its task is called locale-sensitive and uses the locale to tailor information for the user. For example, displaying a number is a locale-sensitive operation as the number should be formatted according to the customs/conventions of the native country, region, or culture of the user.
Each locale code consists of the language code and country arguments.
The language argument is a valid ISO Language
Code. These codes are the lower-case, two-letter codes as
defined by ISO-639.
The country argument is a valid ISO Country
Code. These codes are the upper-case, two-letter codes as
defined by ISO-3166.
Instead of specifying the format parameter (or together with it), you can specify the locale parameter.
In strings, instead of setting a format for the whole date field, specify e.g. the German locale. CloudConnect will then automatically choose the proper date format used in Germany. If the locale is not specified at all, CloudConnect will choose the default one which is given by your system. In order to learn how to change the default locale, refer to Changing Default CloudConnect Settings
In numbers, on the other hand, there are cases when both the format and locale parameters are meaningful. In case of specifying the format of decimal numbers, you define the format/pattern with a decimal separator and the locale determines whether the separator is a comma or a dot. If neither the locale or format is specified, the number is converted to string using a universal technique (without checking defaultProperties). If only the format parameter is given, the default locale is used.
To get more examples of other formatting that is affected when the locale is changed see Locale-Sensitive Formatting.
Dates, too, can have different formats in different locales (even
with different countries of the same language). For instance,
March 2, 2009 (in the USA) vs. 2 March
2009 (in the UK).
A complete list of the locale supported by CloudConnect can be found in a separate table below. The locale format as described above is always "language.COUNTRY".
Table 28.14. List of all Locale
| Locale code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| [system default] | Locale determined by your OS |
| ar | Arabic language |
| ar.AE | Arabic - United Arab Emirates |
| ar.BH | Arabic - Bahrain |
| ar.DZ | Arabic - Algeria |
| ar.EG | Arabic - Egypt |
| ar.IQ | Arabic - Iraq |
| ar.JO | Arabic - Jordan |
| ar.KW | Arabic - Kuwait |
| ar.LB | Arabic - Lebanon |
| ar.LY | Arabic - Lybia |
| ar.MA | Arabic - Morocco |
| ar.OM | Arabic - Oman |
| ar.QA | Arabic - Qatar |
| ar.SA | Arabic - Saudi Arabia |
| ar.SD | Arabic - Sudan |
| ar.SY | Arabic - Syrian Arab Republic |
| ar.TN | Arabic - Tunisia |
| ar.YE | Arabic - Yemen |
| be | Byelorussian language |
| be.BY | Byelorussian - Belarus |
| bg | Bulgarian language |
| bg.BG | Bulgarian - Bulgaria |
| ca | Catalan language |
| ca.ES | Catalan - Spain |
| cs | Czech language |
| cs.CZ | Czech - Czech Republic |
| da | Danish language |
| da.DK | Danish - Denmark |
| de | German language |
| de.AT | German - Austria |
| de.CH | German - Switzerland |
| de.DE | German - Germany |
| de.LU | German - Luxembourg |
| el | Greek language |
| el.CY | Greek - Cyprus |
| el.GR | Greek - Greece |
| en | English language |
| en.AU | English - Australia |
| en.CA | English - Canada |
| en.GB | English - Great Britain |
| en.IE | English - Ireland |
| en.IN | English - India |
| en.MT | English - Malta |
| en.NZ | English - New Zealand |
| en.PH | English - Philippines |
| en.SG | English - Singapore |
| en.US | English - United States |
| en.ZA | English - South Africa |
| es | Spanish language |
| es.AR | Spanish - Argentina |
| es.BO | Spanish - Bolivia |
| es.CL | Spanish - Chile |
| es.CO | Spanish - Colombia |
| es.CR | Spanish - Costa Rica |
| es.DO | Spanish - Dominican Republic |
| es.EC | Spanish - Ecuador |
| es.ES | Spanish - Spain |
| es.GT | Spanish - Guatemala |
| es.HN | Spanish - Honduras |
| es.MX | Spanish - Mexico |
| es.NI | Spanish - Nicaragua |
| es.PA | Spanish - Panama |
| es.PR | Spanish - Puerto Rico |
| es.PY | Spanish - Paraguay |
| es.US | Spanish - United States |
| es.UY | Spanish - Uruguay |
| es.VE | Spanish - Venezuela |
| et | Estonian language |
| et.EE | Estonian - Estonia |
| fi | Finnish language |
| fi.FI | Finnish - Finland |
| fr | French language |
| fr.BE | French - Belgium |
| fr.CA | French - Canada |
| fr.CH | French - Switzerland |
| fr.FR | French - France |
| fr.LU | French - Luxembourg |
| ga | Irish language |
| ga.IE | Irish - Ireland |
| he | Hebrew language |
| he.IL | Hebrew - Israel |
| hi.IN | Hindi - India |
| hr | Croatian language |
| hr.HR | Croatian - Croatia |
| id | Indonesian language |
| id.ID | Indonesian - Indonesia |
| is | Icelandic language |
| is.IS | Icelandic - Iceland |
| it | Italian language |
| it.CH | Italian - Switzerland |
| it.IT | Italian - Italy |
| iw | Hebrew language |
| iw.IL | Hebrew - Israel |
| ja | Japanese language |
| ja.JP | Japanese - Japan |
| ko | Korean languate |
| ko.KR | Korean - Republic of Korea |
| lt | Lithuanian language |
| lt.LT | Lithuanian language - Lithuania |
| lv | Latvian language |
| lv.LV | Latvian language - Latvia |
| mk | Macedonian language |
| mk.MK | Macedonian - The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| ms | Malay language |
| ms.MY | Malay - Burmese |
| mt | Maltese language |
| mt.MT | Maltese - Malta |
| nl | Dutch language |
| nl.BE | Dutch - Belgium |
| nl.NL | Dutch - Netherlands |
| no | Norwegian language |
| no.NO | Norwegian - Norway |
| pl | Polish language |
| pl.PL | Polish - Poland |
| pt | Portuguese language |
| pt.BR | Portuguese - Brazil |
| pt.PT | Portuguese - Portugal |
| ro | Romanian language |
| ro.RO | Romanian - Romany |
| ru | Russian language |
| ru.RU | Russian - Russian Federation |
| sk | Slovak language |
| sk.SK | Slovak - Slovakia |
| sl | Slovenian language |
| sl.SI | Slovenian - Slovenia |
| sq | Albanian language |
| sq.AL | Albanian - Albania |
| sr | Serbian language |
| sr.BA | Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegowina |
| sr.CS | Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro |
| sr.ME | Serbian - Serbia (Cyrillic, Montenegro) |
| sr.RS | Serbian - Serbia (Latin, Serbia) |
| sv | Swedish language |
| sv.SE | Swedish - Sweden |
| th | Thai language |
| th.TH | Thai - Thailand |
| tr | Turkish language |
| tr.TR | Turkish - Turkey |
| uk | Ukrainian language |
| uk.UA | Ukrainian - Ukraine |
| vi.VN | Vietnamese - Vietnam |
| zh | Chinese language |
| zh.CN | Chinese - China |
| zh.HK | Chinese - Hong Kong |
| zh.SG | Chinese - Singapore |
| zh.TW | Chinese - Taiwan |