Locale (mx.lang.Locale)

Object
  |
  +-mx.lang.Locale

public class Locale
extends Object

The mx.lang.Locale class allows you to control how multilanguage text is displayed in a SWF file. The Flash Strings panel allows you to use string IDs instead of string literals in dynamic text fields. This allows you to create a SWF file that displays text loaded from a language-specific XML file. The XML file must use the XML Localization Interchange File Format(XLIFF). There are three ways to display the language-specific strings contained in the XLIFF files:

  • "automatically at runtime"— Flash Player replaces string IDs with strings from the XML file matching the default system language code returned by System.capabilities.language.

  • "manually using stage language" ...

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