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NAME

       Locale::Util - Portable l10n and i10n functions

SYNOPSIS

         use Locale::Util;

         my @linguas = parse_http_accept_language $ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE};

         my @charsets = parse_http_accept_charset $ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET};

         # Trie to set the locale to Brasilian Portuguese in UTF-8.
         my $set_locale = set_locale LC_ALL, 'pt', 'BR', 'utf-8';

         set_locale_cache $last_cache;

         my $cache = get_locale_cache;

         web_set_locale ($ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE}, $ENV_ACCEPT_CHARSET);

         web_set_locale (['fr-BE', 'fr', 'it'], ['cp1252', 'utf-8']);

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides portable functions dealing with localization (l10n) and
       internationalization(i10n).  It doesn't export anything by default, you have to specify
       each function you need in the import list, or use the fully qualified name.

       The functions here have a focus on web development, although they are general enough to
       have them in the Locale:: namespace.

       This module is considered alpha code.  The interface is not stable.  Please contact the
       author if you want to use it in production code.

       This module was introduced in libintl-perl 1.17.

FUNCTIONS

       parse_http_accept_language STRING
           Parses a string as passed in the HTTP header "Accept-Language".  It returns a list of
           tokens sorted by the quality value, see RFC 2616 for details.

           Example:

             parse_http_accept ("fr-fr, fr; q=0.7, de; q=0.3");

           This means: Give me French for France with a quality value of 1.0 (the maximum).
           Otherwise I will take any other French version (quality 0.7), German has a quality of
           0.3 for me.

           The function will return a list of tokens in the order of their quality values, in
           this case "fr-fr", "fr" and "de".

           The function is more forgiving than RFC 2616.  It accepts quality values greater than
           1.0 and with more than 3 decimal places.  It also accepts languages and country names
           with more than 8 characters.  The language "*" is translated into "C".

       parse_http_accept_charset STRING
           Parses a string as passed in the HTTP header "Accept-Charset".  It returns a list of
           tokens sorted by the quality value, see RFC 2616 for details.

           The special character set "*" (means all character sets) will be translated to the
           undefined value.

       set_locale CATEGORY, LANGUAGE[, COUNTRY, CHARSET]
           Tries to set the user locale by means of POSIX::setlocale().  The latter function has
           the disadvantage, that its second argument (the locale description string) is
           completely non-standard and system-dependent.  This function tries its best at
           guessing the system's notion of a locale dientifier, with the arguments supplied:

           CATEGORY
                   An integer argument for a valid locale category.  These are the LC_* constants
                   (LC_ALL, LC_CTIME, LC_COLLATE, ...) defined in both Locale::Messages(3pm) and
                   POSIX(3pm).

           LANGUAGE
                   A 2-letter language identifier as per ISO 639.  Case doesn't matter, but an
                   unchanged version (ie. not lower-cased) of the language you provided will
                   always be tried to.

           COUNTRY A 2-letter language identifier as per ISO 639.  Case doesn't matter, but an
                   unchanged version (ie. not lower-cased) of the language you provided will
                   always be tried to.

                   This parameter is optional.  If it is not defined, the function will try to
                   guess an appropriate country, otherwise leave it to the operating system.

           CHARSET A valid charset name.  Valid means valid!  The charset "utf8" is not valid (it
                   is "utf-8").  Charset names that are accepted by the guessing algorithms in
                   Encode(3pm) are also not necessarily valid.

                   If the parameter is undefined, it is ignored.  It is always ignored under
                   Windows.

           The function tries to approach the desired locale in loops, refining it on every
           success.  It will first try to set the language (for any country), then try to select
           the correct language, and finally try to select the correct charset.

           The return value is false in case of failure, or the return value of the underlying
           POSIX::setlocale() call in case of success.

           In array context, the function returns the country name that was passed in the
           successful call to POSIX::setlocale().  If this string is equal to the country name
           you passed as an argument, you can be reasonably sure that the settings for this
           country are really used.  If it is not equal, the function has taken a guess at the
           country (it has a list of "default" countries for each language).  It seems that under
           Windows, POSIX::setlocale() also succeeds, if you pass a country name that is actually
           not supported.  Therefore, the information is not completely reliable.

           Please note that this function is intended for server processes (especially web
           applications) that need to switch in a portable way to a certain locale.  It is not
           the recommended way to set the program locale for a regular application.  In a regular
           application you should do the following:

               use POSIX qw (setlocale LC_ALL);
               setlocale LC_ALL, '';

           The empty string as the second argument means, that the system should switch to the
           user's default locale.

       get_locale_cache
           The function set_locale() is potentially expansive, especially when it fails, because
           it can try a lot of different combinations, and the system may have to load a lot of
           locale definitions from its internal database.

           In order to speed up things, results are internally cached in a hash, keys are the
           languages, subkeys countries, subsubkeys the charsets.  You can get a reference to
           this hash with get_locale_cache().

           The function cannot fail.

       set_locale_cache HASH
           Sets the internal cache.  You can either pass a hash or a hash reference.  The
           function will use this as its cache, discarding its old cache.  This allows you to
           keep the hash persistent.

           The function cannot fail.

       web_set_locale (ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, ACCEPT_CHARSET, CATEGORY, AVAILABLE)
           Try to change the locale to the settings described by ACCEPT_LANGUAGE and
           ACCEPT_CHARSET.  For each argument you can either pass a string as in the
           corresponding http header, or a reference to an array of language resp. charset
           identifiers.

           Currently only the first charset passed is used as an argument.  You are strongly
           encouraged to pass a hard-coded value here, so that you have control about your
           output.

           The argument CATEGORY specifies the category (one of the LC_* constants as defined in
           Locale::Messages(3pm) or in POSIX(3pm)).  The category defaults to LC_ALL.

           You can pass an optional reference to a list of locales in XPG4 format that are
           available in your application.  This is useful if you know which languages are
           supported by your application.  In fact, only the language part of the values in the
           list are considered (for example for "en_US", only "en" is used).  The country or
           other parts are ignored.

           The function returns the return value of the underlying set_locale() call, or false on
           failure.

           The function returns false on failure.  On success it returns the return value of the
           underlying set_locale() call.  This value can be used directly in subsequent calls to
           POSIX::setlocale().  In array context, it additionally returns the identifiers for the
           language, the country, and the charset actually used.

BUGS

       The function set_locale() probably fails to guess the correct locale identifier on a lot
       of systems.  If you have found such a case, please submit it as a bug report.

       The bug tracking system for this packags is at
       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?libintl-perl

       Please note that this module is considered alpha code, and the interface is not stable.
       Please contact the author, if you want to use it in production code.

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2002-2013, Guido Flohr <guido@imperia.net>, all rights reserved.  See the
       source code for details.

       This software is contributed to the Perl community by Imperia (<http://www.imperia.net/>).

SEE ALSO

       POSIX(3pm), perl(1)

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