Internationalization/locale
From wikipedia
Definition: 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. Format of locale on OS's:
- windows: hexadecimal code consisting of a language code (lower 10 bits) and culture code (upper bits), aka Locale Identifier (LCID)
(for unmanaged code)
- linux, unix: defined as [language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]]