nsILocale 编辑

intl/locale/idl/nsILocale.idlScriptable 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.

See also

• stringbundle