Locales

Locales are definition files that tell a computer about the cultural
conventions of a language and/or country.  So a locale will define how
characters are sorted, how the date and time are represented, the names of the
days of the week and months of the year.

These are the locale files that interest a localiser:

* glibc
* ICU
* OpenOffice.org

To help with defining locale data you will also need to know about:

* Character sort orders