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Siebel Global Deployment Guide > Overview of Global Deployments > Global Deployment Terminology > LocaleThis topic is part of Global Deployment Terminology. A locale is based on the language, country (territory), and character set applicable to a particular place or region. Siebel Business Applications cannot control the character set supported by the database and do not directly support the concept of a country, so the locale is primarily based on the language. Organization is sometimes used as a proxy for country. Locales are defined in the Siebel seed data and associated with Application Object Manager components, as are languages. A Siebel locale includes a collection of user profile inputs, including keyboard layout and the formats used for numbers, dates, currencies, and times. Bidirectionality is also a function of locale, as noted in Verifying Bidirectional Capability. The Siebel Web Client adopts the locale settings in effect for the Application Object Manager component on the Siebel Server. The Siebel Mobile Web Client and Developer Web Client adopt the locale settings defined in the client operating system's regional settings. For more information about locales defined in Siebel Business Applications, see Siebel Applications Administration Guide. Types of LocalesDifferent types of locales are described as follows:
Locale UsageYou can use locale rules to vary the appearance of data for different regions of your implementation. Typically, this data would include dates and times, numbers, and currencies. For example, the date and time thirty minutes past four in the afternoon on May nine, year two thousand-and-thirteen can appear differently depending on the locale. It might appear as:
Locales specify thousand separators and decimal symbols for numbers. They determine the position of the currency symbol in relation to the currency amount. Locales also guide what characters are available through the computer keyboard. Users can remap their keyboards through the locale setting to get access to additional characters when typing. |
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