Viewing Existing Locales
To view any locales that have already been defined, log on to a WorldServer account that has administrator privileges.
In WorldServer, navigate to . If locales have been defined, you see a page similar to the following. (If locales have not yet been defined, no locales are listed on this page):
Figure 1. Viewing Existing Locales
Locale properties have the following meanings:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A descriptive name for the locale, assigned by the person setting up the locale |
| Language | The name of the language that is associated with the locale |
| Language ISO Code | The standard code for the language, combined with the code for the country in which the language is spoken |
| Encoding | The locale’s default encoding, a standard code that represents the rules used to read and write all of the characters in a character set to and from a file. This encoding can be overridden for individual folders. |
A language can appear in more than one locale. For example, you can work with two English locales, English as spoken in the US (en_US) and English as spoken in the UK (en_UK).
Further, the same language spoken in the same country can have different encodings and therefore be represented by two different locales. For example, you could define two locales for Japanese as spoken in Japan (ja_JP), one with an encoding of Shift_JIS, and the other with an encoding of UTF-8. Alternatively, you could define one locale with a default encoding of Shift_JIS, but override that encoding when you want to use UTF-8.