Locale Specs¶

The engine supports Locales in a limited fashion in the Admin tool (Engine Preferences) and in creating case-insensitive searches (Dimension Element).

In most cases, English/United States is the default Locale in effect.

A Locale can include up to three arguments. If locale is used at all, it must minimally specify a Language. If Country is used, a Language must also be specified, in the order shown above. The same rules apply if a variant is used.

The Language argument is a valid ISO Language Code. Default is en (English). These codes are the lower-case, two-letter codes as defined by ISO-639. You can find a full list of these codes at a number of sites, such as:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt

The Country argument is a valid ISO Country Code. Default is “US” (United States). These codes are the upper-case, two-letter codes as defined by ISO-3166. You can find a full list of these codes at a number of sites, such as:

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html

The variant argument is a vendor or browser-specific code. Default is POSIX (Linux/Unix). For example, use POSIX for POSIX, MAX for Macintosh and WIN for Windows.

For example:

• English language, no country: “en”
• Portuguese language, Brazil: “pt_BR”
• English language, United States, POSIX Variant: “en_US_POSIX”