39. Locales

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

– Proverb

• Handling Cultural Differences

• Class locale

Named locales; Comparing strings

• Class facet

Accessing facets in a locale; A Simple User-defined facet; Uses of locales and facets

• Standard facets

string Comparison; Numeric Formatting; Money Formatting; Date and Time Formatting; Character Classification; Character Code Conversion; Messages

• Convenience Interfaces

Character Classifications; Character Conversions; String Conversions; Buffer Conversions

• Advice

39.1. Handling Cultural Differences

A locale is an object that represents a set of cultural preferences, such as how strings are compared, the way numbers appear as human-readable output, and the way characters are represented in ...

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