3.1. Locale About

• i18n = internationalization

• l10n = localization

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY

$100
100 zł

100.00
100,00

1000000
1 000 000
1.000.000
1,000,000
1'000'000

10k
10.5k
10kk
10M

Number grouping (mind Indian numeric system 1):

1.000.000
10.00.000

World vs Indian:

Figure 3.24. Source: 2

Figure 3.25. Source: 2

Polish vs English:

Polish      | English
------------+--------------
tysiąc      | thousand
milion      | milion
miliard     | bilion
bilion      | trillion
biliard     | quadrillion
trylion     | quintillion
tryliard    | sextillion

3.1.1. Syntax

• language (i18n)

• variant (l10n)

• encoding (enctype)

en_US.UTF-8
en_GB.UTF-8
en_AU.UTF-8
en_NZ.UTF-8

pl_PL.UTF-8
pl_PL.ISO-8859-2
pl_PL.CP1250

3.1.2. Get Locale

$ locale
LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

$ env |grep LC_
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8

3.1.3. Set Locale

$ echo 'export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> ~/.profile

ls -R /etc/locale*

3.1.4. Locale in Python

import locale

3.1.5. Further Reading

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/formats.py

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/conf/locale/pl/formats.py

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/conf/locale/en/formats.py

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/conf/locale/hi/formats.py

3.1.6. References

1

Wikipedia. Indian numbering system. Year: 2022. Retrieved: 2022-06-13. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

2(1,2)

Cuemath. Indian Numeral System. Year: 2022. Retrieved: 2022-06-13. URL: https://www.cuemath.com/numbers/indian-numeral-system/