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Ruby-Locale
Ruby-Locale is the pure ruby library which provides basic and general purpose APIs for localization.
- Manage Locale ID(Language Tag)
- Each thread has a Locale ID.
- POSIX, CLDR, IETF(RFC4646, 3066(BCP47)), Win32 and Java language tags and convert the tag string to each other.
- Auto detect Locale ID. POSIX(Unix/Linux/*BSD), Win32, JRuby, CGI.
- Resources
- ISO 639-3 languages
- ISO 3166 region(countries).
- Support Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1, JRuby 1.1.4. Tested on Win32 and Linux.
Website
Requirements
- Ruby-1.8.7 or later <www.ruby-lang.org/ja/>
- JRuby-1.1.4 or later <jruby.codehaus.org/>
Install
- gem: ($ su)
# gem install locale
- tar-ball: Download tar-ball from rubyforge.org/projects/locale/ De-Compress archive and enter its top directory. Then type: ($ su) # ruby setup.rb
The simplest usage
require 'rubygems' require 'locale' p Locale.current
License
This program is licenced under the same licence as Ruby. (See the file ‘COPYING’.)
- locale/language.rb, locale/region.rb, locale/data/language.tab.gz,
locale/data/region.tab.gz:
- Copyright (C) 2006 Antonio Terceiro
- Copyright (C) 2008 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>
- setup.rb version 3.4.1
- Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Minero Aoki <aamine at loveruby.net>
- This file is released under LGPL. See the top of the setup.rb.
- Others(Some files are separated from Ruby-GetText-Package-1.92.0)
- Copyright (C) 2008 Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highwhay.ne.jp>
References
Other libraries
- langtag-0.1.0
by Martin Dürst <http://rubyforge.org/projects/langtag/>
- memoizable.rb
from ActiveSupport-2.2.0 <http://rubyforge.org/projects/activesupport/>
- Ruby-GetText-Package-1.92.0
by Masao Mutoh <http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html>
Documents
- The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition Internationalization Variables <www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html>
- GNU `gettext’ utilities - Setting the Locale through Environment Variables <www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Setting-the-POSIX-Locale>
- BCP47 / RFC4646, RFC3066 - Tags for Identifying Languages (Keep RFC3066 compatibility) <www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt> <www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt>
- Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) 1.6.1 Unicode Language and Locale Identifiers <www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-11.html#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers>
- JDK 6 Documentation - Java Supported Locales <java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/locale.doc.html>
- Microsoft Developer Network - Locales and Languages <msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776264(VS.85).aspx>
- ISO 639
- ISO 3166
Maintainer
Masao Mutoh <mutoh at highway.ne.jp>