Translations:Localization/Guide/25/en

A Locale is a set of information that most programs use for determining country and language specific settings. The locales and their data are part of the system library and can be found at on most systems. A locale name is generally named  where   is your two (or three) letter language code (as specified in ISO-639) and   is your two letter country code (as specified in ISO-3166). Variants are often appended to locale names, e.g.  or. Please explore Wikipedia to read more about locales and related articles.