Internationalization/locale

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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]]