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Locale Name Format
As you can see, locale names are system-dependent. Most systems, however, tend to follow the XPG naming convention, where a locale name has the following format:
language_territory.encoding
where
*language is the language name;
*territory is the territory name: a language can be spoken in different areas or countries: French, for example, is spoken in France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and other countries);
*encoding is a code set or an encoding method by which characters are coded.
On Unix Systems
The following examples show the format of a locale name as displayed on different Unix® systems. The locale is for French as spoken in France with the Latin1 encoding.
*HP-UX 10.x: fr_FR.iso88591
*Solaris 10: fr
*IBM AIX 4.2: fr_FR or fr_FR.ISO8859-1
*OSF1 4.0: fr_FR.ISO8859-1
*SGI IRIX 6.2: fr
On Windows Systems
The following example shows the format of a locale on a Windows® system. The locale is for French as spoken in France with Windows Code Page 1252.
*Windows: French_France.1252

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