Represents one locale, which can be used for things like sorting text strings and formatting numbers, dates and times.
Inherits from:
nsISupports
Last changed in Gecko 1.0 Method overview
AString getCategory(in AString category); |
Methods
getCategory()
Retrieves a string with the current locale name.
AString getCategory( in AString category );
Parameters
category- A string representing the category to retrieve the locale for. Valid strings are stored in nsILocale.idl. Currently those are:
NSILOCALE_COLLATE- Collation order. How strings are sorted.NSILOCALE_CTYPE- Character classification and case conversion.NSILOCALE_MONETARY- Monetary formatting.NSILOCALE_NUMERIC- Numeric, non-monetary formatting.NSILOCALE_TIME- Date and time formats.NSILOCALE_MESSAGES- Related to fonts, character encodings and so on.
Return value
The locale code to be used for the given category.
A locale code is of the form language[-COUNTRY[-region]], where "language" is an ISO 639 language code (two letter codes preferred over three letter codes when available), "COUNTRY" is an ISO 3166 two letter country code, and "region" is a string of up to 5 letters.