Various data types (date and time, any numeric values, strings) can be displayed, parsed, or formatted in different ways according to the Locale property. See Locale for more information.
Strings can also be influenced by Locale sensitivity. See Locale Sensitivity.
Locale represents a specific geographical, political, or cultural region. An operation that requires a locale to perform its task is called locale-sensitive and uses the locale to tailor information for the user. For example, displaying a number is a locale-sensitive operation as the number should be formatted according to the customs/conventions of the native country, region, or culture of the user.
Each locale code consists of the language code and country arguments.
The language argument is a valid ISO Language Code.
These codes are the lower-case, two-letter codes as
defined by ISO-639.
The country argument is a valid ISO Country Code.
These codes are the upper-case, two-letter codes as
defined by ISO-3166.
Instead of specifying the format parameter (or together with it), you can specify the locale parameter.
In strings, instead of setting a format for the whole date field, specify e.g. the German locale. Clover will then automatically choose the proper date format used in Germany. If the locale is not specified at all, Clover will choose the default one which is given by your system. In order to learn how to change the default locale, refer to Chapter 18, Engine Configuration
In numbers, on the other hand, there are cases when both the format and locale parameters are meaningful. In case of specifying the format of decimal numbers, you define the format/pattern with a decimal separator and the locale determines whether the separator is a comma or a dot. If neither the locale or format is specified, the number is converted to string using a universal technique (without checking defaultProperties). If only the format parameter is given, the default locale is used.
See also http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html for details about locale in Java.
Example 32.2. Examples of Locale
en.US or en.GB
To get more examples of other formatting that is affected when the locale is changed see Locale-Sensitive Formatting.
Dates, too, can have different formats in different locales (even
with different countries of the same language).
For instance,
March 2, 2009 (in the USA) vs. 2 March 2009 (in the UK).
A complete list of the locale supported by CloverETL can be found in a separate table below. The locale format as described above is always "language.COUNTRY".
Table 32.14. List of all Locale
| Locale code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| [system default] | Locale determined by your OS |
| ar | Arabic language |
| ar.AE | Arabic - United Arab Emirates |
| ar.BH | Arabic - Bahrain |
| ar.DZ | Arabic - Algeria |
| ar.EG | Arabic - Egypt |
| ar.IQ | Arabic - Iraq |
| ar.JO | Arabic - Jordan |
| ar.KW | Arabic - Kuwait |
| ar.LB | Arabic - Lebanon |
| ar.LY | Arabic - Libya |
| ar.MA | Arabic - Morocco |
| ar.OM | Arabic - Oman |
| ar.QA | Arabic - Qatar |
| ar.SA | Arabic - Saudi Arabia |
| ar.SD | Arabic - Sudan |
| ar.SY | Arabic - Syrian Arab Republic |
| ar.TN | Arabic - Tunisia |
| ar.YE | Arabic - Yemen |
| be | Belorussian language |
| be.BY | Belorussian - Belarus |
| bg | Bulgarian language |
| bg.BG | Bulgarian - Bulgaria |
| ca | Catalan language |
| ca.ES | Catalan - Spain |
| cs | Czech language |
| cs.CZ | Czech - Czech Republic |
| da | Danish language |
| da.DK | Danish - Denmark |
| de | German language |
| de.AT | German - Austria |
| de.CH | German - Switzerland |
| de.DE | German - Germany |
| de.LU | German - Luxembourg |
| el | Greek language |
| el.CY | Greek - Cyprus |
| el.GR | Greek - Greece |
| en | English language |
| en.AU | English - Australia |
| en.CA | English - Canada |
| en.GB | English - Great Britain |
| en.IE | English - Ireland |
| en.IN | English - India |
| en.MT | English - Malta |
| en.NZ | English - New Zealand |
| en.PH | English - Philippines |
| en.SG | English - Singapore |
| en.US | English - United States |
| en.ZA | English - South Africa |
| es | Spanish language |
| es.AR | Spanish - Argentina |
| es.BO | Spanish - Bolivia |
| es.CL | Spanish - Chile |
| es.CO | Spanish - Colombia |
| es.CR | Spanish - Costa Rica |
| es.DO | Spanish - Dominican Republic |
| es.EC | Spanish - Ecuador |
| es.ES | Spanish - Spain |
| es.GT | Spanish - Guatemala |
| es.HN | Spanish - Honduras |
| es.MX | Spanish - Mexico |
| es.NI | Spanish - Nicaragua |
| es.PA | Spanish - Panama |
| es.PR | Spanish - Puerto Rico |
| es.PY | Spanish - Paraguay |
| es.US | Spanish - United States |
| es.UY | Spanish - Uruguay |
| es.VE | Spanish - Venezuela |
| et | Estonian language |
| et.EE | Estonian - Estonia |
| fi | Finnish language |
| fi.FI | Finnish - Finland |
| fr | French language |
| fr.BE | French - Belgium |
| fr.CA | French - Canada |
| fr.CH | French - Switzerland |
| fr.FR | French - France |
| fr.LU | French - Luxembourg |
| ga | Irish language |
| ga.IE | Irish - Ireland |
| he | Hebrew language |
| he.IL | Hebrew - Israel |
| hi.IN | Hindi - India |
| hr | Croatian language |
| hr.HR | Croatian - Croatia |
| id | Indonesian language |
| id.ID | Indonesian - Indonesia |
| is | Icelandic language |
| is.IS | Icelandic - Iceland |
| it | Italian language |
| it.CH | Italian - Switzerland |
| it.IT | Italian - Italy |
| iw | Hebrew language |
| iw.IL | Hebrew - Israel |
| ja | Japanese language |
| ja.JP | Japanese - Japan |
| ko | Korean language |
| ko.KR | Korean - Republic of Korea |
| lt | Lithuanian language |
| lt.LT | Lithuanian language - Lithuania |
| lv | Latvian language |
| lv.LV | Latvian language - Latvia |
| mk | Macedonian language |
| mk.MK | Macedonian - The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| ms | Malay language |
| ms.MY | Malay - Burmese |
| mt | Maltese language |
| mt.MT | Maltese - Malta |
| nl | Dutch language |
| nl.BE | Dutch - Belgium |
| nl.NL | Dutch - Netherlands |
| no | Norwegian language |
| no.NO | Norwegian - Norway |
| pl | Polish language |
| pl.PL | Polish - Poland |
| pt | Portuguese language |
| pt.BR | Portuguese - Brazil |
| pt.PT | Portuguese - Portugal |
| ro | Romanian language |
| ro.RO | Romanian - Romany |
| ru | Russian language |
| ru.RU | Russian - Russian Federation |
| sk | Slovak language |
| sk.SK | Slovak - Slovakia |
| sl | Slovenian language |
| sl.SI | Slovenian - Slovenia |
| sq | Albanian language |
| sq.AL | Albanian - Albania |
| sr | Serbian language |
| sr.BA | Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegowina |
| sr.CS | Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro |
| sr.ME | Serbian - Serbia (Cyrillic, Montenegro) |
| sr.RS | Serbian - Serbia (Latin, Serbia) |
| sv | Swedish language |
| sv.SE | Swedish - Sweden |
| th | Thai language |
| th.TH | Thai - Thailand |
| tr | Turkish language |
| tr.TR | Turkish - Turkey |
| uk | Ukrainian language |
| uk.UA | Ukrainian - Ukraine |
| vi.VN | Vietnamese - Vietnam |
| zh | Chinese language |
| zh.CN | Chinese - China |
| zh.HK | Chinese - Hong Kong |
| zh.SG | Chinese - Singapore |
| zh.TW | Chinese - Taiwan |
Locale sensitivity can be applied to the
string data type only.
What is more, the Locale has to be specified either for the field or the whole record.
Field settings override the Locale sensitivity specified for the whole record.
Values of Locale sensitivity are the following:
base_letter_sensitivity
Does not distinguish different cases of letters nor letters with diacritical marks.
accent_sensitivity
Does not distinguish different cases of letters. It distinguishes letters with diacritical marks.
case_sensitivity
Distinguishes different cases of letters and letters with diacritical marks. It does not distinguish the letter encoding ("\u00C0" equals to "A\u0300")
identical_sensitivity
Distinguishes the letter encoding ("\u00C0" equals to "A\u0300")