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%SYS.NLS.Locale

Class %SYS.NLS.Locale Extends %RegisteredObject [ System = 4 ]

Exposes some properties and methods associated with a locale. If no locale is given to %New(), then the current one is used.

For system and process NLS table settings see %SYS.NLS.Table.
For current device NLS properties see %SYS.NLS.Device.
For date, time and number format properties see %SYS.NLS.Format.

Properties​

AccentTables​

Property AccentTables As %String;

List of available Accent tables.

CharacterSet​

Property CharacterSet As %String;

Name of character set on which the current locale is based.

CollationTables​

Property CollationTables As %String;

List of available collation tables.

Country​

Property Country As %String;

Country supported by the current locale.

CountryAbbr​

Property CountryAbbr As %String;

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter abbreviation of Country.

Currency​

Property Currency As %String;

Currency symbol.

Description​

Property Description As %String;

Short description of the current locale.

IdentifierTables​

Property IdentifierTables As %String;

List of available identifier tables.

Language​

Property Language As %String;

Localization language for the current locale.

LanguageAbbr​

Property LanguageAbbr As %String;

ISO 639-1 two-letter abbreviation of Language.

In a few cases, where the language is used by more than one country, this abbreviation is hyphenated with the uppercase abbreviation of the country. For example, en-US, en-GB, pt-BR.

LowerCaseTables​

Property LowerCaseTables As %String;

List of available lower-case tables.

Name​

Property Name As %String;

Code name of the current locale.

PatternTables​

Property PatternTables As %String;

List of available pattern match tables.

TitleCaseTables​

Property TitleCaseTables As %String;

List of available title-case tables.

UpperCaseTables​

Property UpperCaseTables As %String;

List of available upper-case tables.

XLTTables​

Property XLTTables As %String;

List of available translation (i/o) tables

XYTables​

Property XYTables As %String;

List of available $X/$Y tables.

Methods​

%OnNew​

Method %OnNew(sloc As %String = "") As %Status [ Internal ]

GetLanguage​

ClassMethod GetLanguage(Loc As %String = "") As %List

Returns the language associated with a locale as
$LB({Property LanguageAbbr},{Property Language})

Parameters:

  • Loc - Locale code (optional) If the locale code is not given, use the current locale.