Class %SYS.NLS.Locale

class %SYS.NLS.Locale extends %RegisteredObject

Exposes some properties and methods associated with a locale. If no locale is given to %New(), then the current one is used.

For system and process NLS table settings see %SYS.NLS.Table.
For current device NLS properties see %SYS.NLS.Device.
For date, time and number format properties see %SYS.NLS.Format.

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Parameters	Properties	Methods	Queries	Indices	ForeignKeys	Triggers
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Summary

Properties
AccentTables	CharacterSet	CollationTables	Country
CountryAbbr	Currency	Description	IdentifierTables
Language	LanguageAbbr	LowerCaseTables	Name
PatternTables	TitleCaseTables	UpperCaseTables	XLTTables
XYTables

Methods
%AddToSaveSet	%ClassIsLatestVersion	%ClassName	%ConstructClone
%DispatchClassMethod	%DispatchGetModified	%DispatchGetProperty	%DispatchMethod
%DispatchSetModified	%DispatchSetMultidimProperty	%DispatchSetProperty	%Extends
%GetParameter	%IsA	%IsModified	%New
%NormalizeObject	%ObjectModified	%OriginalNamespace	%PackageName
%RemoveFromSaveSet	%SerializeObject	%SetModified	%ValidateObject
GetLanguage

Properties

• property AccentTables as %String;

List of available Accent tables.

• property CharacterSet as %String;

Name of character set on which the current locale is based.

• property CollationTables as %String;

List of available collation tables.

• property Country as %String;

Country supported by the current locale.

• property CountryAbbr as %String;

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter abbreviation of Country.

• property Currency as %String;

Currency symbol.

• property Description as %String;

Short description of the current locale.

• property IdentifierTables as %String;

List of available identifier tables.

• property Language as %String;

Localization language for the current locale.

• property LanguageAbbr as %String;

ISO 639-1 two-letter abbreviation of Language.

In a few cases, where the language is used by more than one country, this abbreviation is hyphenated with the uppercase abbreviation of the country. For example, en-US, en-GB, pt-BR.

• property LowerCaseTables as %String;

List of available lower-case tables.

• property Name as %String;

Code name of the current locale.

• property PatternTables as %String;

List of available pattern match tables.

• property TitleCaseTables as %String;

List of available title-case tables.

• property UpperCaseTables as %String;

List of available upper-case tables.

• property XLTTables as %String;

List of available translation (i/o) tables

• property XYTables as %String;

List of available $X/$Y tables.

Methods

• classmethod GetLanguage(Loc As %String = "") as %List

Returns the language associated with a locale as
$LB({Property LanguageAbbr},{Property Language})

Parameters:

Loc - Locale code (optional)
If the locale code is not given, use the current locale.

Class Reference IRIS for UNIX 2024.1.2
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