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This article is about internationalization and localization in computer software design and programming. For the use of "locale" as a place, see location and region. Here is a list of places on earth based on specific categories The article is about the geographic sense of the term For other uses including Regions and Regional, see Region (disambiguation. For the use of the term "locale" in order theory and pointless topology, see frames and locales. Order theory is a branch of Mathematics that studies various kinds of Binary relations that capture the intuitive notion of ordering providing a framework for saying In Mathematics, pointless topology (also called point-free or pointfree topology is an approach to Topology which avoids the mentioning of points In Mathematics, especially in Order theory, a complete Heyting algebra is a Heyting algebra which is complete as a lattice.

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. Computing is usually defined like the activity of using and developing Computer technology Computer hardware and software. In Mathematics, Statistics, and the mathematical Sciences a parameter ( G auxiliary measure) is a quantity that defines certain characteristics The user interface (or Human Computer Interface) is the aggregate of means by which people&mdash the users '&mdash interact with the System Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.

Locale identifiers can be defined in several ways:

[language[_territory][. codeset][@modifier]].

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General locale settings

These settings usually include the following display (output) format settings

The above formats may or may not include also an input format setting. The latter, that is the input format setting, is also mostly defined on a per application basis. The daylight saving time setting (DST) is derived from the Timezone Setting. Daylight saving time ( DST

An exception to the rule is the

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Programming/markup language support

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Specifics for Microsoft platform(s)

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Dictionary

locale

-noun

  1. The place where something happens.
  2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, paper format, character encoding etc.
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