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A.19 The Package Locales

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A locale identifies a geopolitical place or region and its associated language, which can be used to determine other internationalization-related characteristics.

Static Semantics

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The library package Locales has the following declaration: 
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package Ada.Locales is
   pragma Preelaborate(Locales);
   pragma Remote_Types(Locales);
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   type Language_Code is new String (1 .. 3)
      with Dynamic_Predicate =>
         (for all E of Language_Code => E in 'a' .. 'z');
   type Country_Code is new String (1 .. 2)
      with Dynamic_Predicate =>
         (for all E of Country_Code  => E in 'A' .. 'Z');
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   Language_Unknown : constant Language_Code := "und";
   Country_Unknown : constant Country_Code := "ZZ";
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   function Language return Language_Code;
   function Country return Country_Code;
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end Ada.Locales;
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The active locale is the locale associated with the partition of the current task.
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Language_Code is a lower-case string representation of an ISO 639-3 alpha-3 code that identifies a language.
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 Country_Code is an upper-case string representation of an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code that identifies a country.
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 Function Language returns the code of the language associated with the active locale. If the Language_Code associated with the active locale cannot be determined from the environment, then Language returns Language_Unknown.
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 Function Country returns the code of the country associated with the active locale. If the Country_Code associated with the active locale cannot be determined from the environment, then Country returns Country_Unknown.

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