Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Locales

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Locales provide a way for you to indicate the language and region to use for locale-sensitive text operations such as collation, text-break determination, and formatting of dates, times, and numbers.


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		Locales Preliminary Documentation [PDF] This preliminary document describes the Locales protocols and API for Mac OS 8.6 and 9.0. You should read this document if you need to understand how to specify the language and/or region for a locale-sensitive text operation or if you need to obtain, for a specified language and/or region, the locale data that will enable the text operation to behave appropriately.