2.2 Locale

The Solaris operating environment provides a number of locales. Each locale includes:

• Associated codeset and codeset conversion modules

• Numeric, time, and date formats

• Collation (sort order)

• Monetary format

• Interface information (messages and icons)

• Input method(s)

• Fonts

Developers access locale settings directly through Solaris operating environment APIs. For example, instead of encoding a particular currency symbol, an application calls the appropriate system API, which returns the currency symbol of the set locale.