As you have seen in a previous section, locale names are system-dependent. Each system has its own way of identifying the locale information. To use locale-dependent information in a system-independent way, Rogue Wave® Server defines the concept of an Rogue Wave Server locale, whose name is system-independent. This locale has the following format (this is compatible with the locale support provided by Rogue Wave Views):

where:

For example, in the Rogue Wave Server locale name fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, fr represents the language name, French; FR represents the territory name, France; ISO-8859-1 represents the encoding method used for the language, which is ISO 8859-1.

The following examples show several Rogue Wave Server locale names on Unix® platforms:

The following examples show several Rogue Wave Server locale names on Windows® platforms:

In the Rogue Wave Server locale, the language names are specified using the abbreviations from the ISO 639 Code for the Representation of Names of Languages.

Here are several examples:

Information on The ISO 639 standard can be found on the following web sites:

http://www.infoterm.info/standardization/iso_639_1_2002.php

http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

In the Rogue Wave Server locale, the territory names are specified using the abbreviations from the ISO 3166 Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries.

The ISO 3166 standard can be consulted on the following web site:

http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm

Here are several examples:

In the Rogue Wave Server locale, the encoding identifies the code set or encoding method used for the language. Examples of encoding methods are:

Any character encoding registered by IANA could be used. But for now, only character sets listed at the end of this chapter can be used by Rogue Wave Server, which tends to use the preferred MIME notation.

For more information, you can consult the following ftp site:

You will find the list of the encodings Rogue Wave Server supports with the languages they apply to in Encodings.