The locale mechanism
A locale is a collection of objects that are localized for a particular geographic region. TLocale provides the protocol for accessing a particular locale. TLocaleItem provides the protocol for accessing individual items within that locale.
Locales are used to:
The data in archives is organized according to this hierarchy. When you create objects, such as user-interface elements, that are localized for a particular region, you can store them in an archive and associate them with that locale. Users within that locale then get localized interface elements when they run your application.
- Store a group of objects commonly used by programs customized for a particular geographic region--for example, fonts, number formats, currency formats, and typing configuration preferences.
Any CommonPoint class can access the objects stored in a given locale. This means it is possible for you to create applications that provide localized features without knowing anything about the contents of particular locales. You can also develop applications that use more than one locale for multilingual processing within a single document.
The CommonPoint application system currently provides locales representing the United States, France, and Japan. The intent is that the system will eventually include locales for Great Britain, Canada, Germany, and Italy. In a future release you will also be able to create your own locales and install them on the system.
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