Re: locals

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:31:09PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:11:02AM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote:
> > What is the local for Australia, or, where can I find a list of locals?
>
> My bet would be en_AU.  Off hand I don't know where you could find a
> normative list of locale names but there is certain to be an
> standard encoding form.

You need to specify a language, and a country, sometimes also a charset
or a sub-district to get exactly what your specific area requires.
All are unofficially derived from ISO abbreviations, and fudged if
necessary, like the ccTLD system.

en_GB.ISO-8859-1  means English, spoken in the UK, using Latin-1

en_AU is a good bet, it will give good defaults in i18n-aware apps,
for language translations you might find it's worth specifying that
you can also read "en_GB" (British) if you prefer not to see US
spellings everywhere. (at least IIRC Australian spellings are closer
to the UK than the US)

Nick.