Named Locales

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Named Locales

In the Internationalization Module, a locale name consists of one or more of the following components, in the following order:

a two-letter, lowercase ISO-639 language code

an optional two-letter, uppercase ISO-3166 country code

an optional variant code representing variations within a language-country pair; the variant name may be compound, composed of two or more variants joined by an underbar

Multiple components are joined by underbars. For example, locale zh_TW contains the ISO-639 language code for Chinese and the ISO-3166 country code for Taiwan. Locale es_ES_TRADITIONAL uses a variant code to specify traditional Spanish.