Information Resources For Locales And Internationalization (I18N)

Here are information resources relevant to software locales (Properties or attributes that describe different ways information is structured, organized, presented or parsed, by different cultures or regions around the world).

The page has become more generally a list of resources for internationalization and localization. Contents of relevant standards are also pointed to.

Also see:
Issues and Advantages with Locales,
I18n Guy's Checklists, Guidelines and Resources.
 

I18nGuy home page

Subject areaLink
Supplementary codes for RFC 3066bis http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/rfc3066bis-codes.html
Tags for Identifying Languages
RFC 3066BIS
http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/draft-phillips-langtags-10.html
Toward A Model For Language Identification And An Analysis Of ISO 639 http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn8/
CLDR Common (XML) Locale Data Repository
Newsgroup for XML Locale Repository fsg.open18n.locale.user    at    news://base.freestandards.org/ (retired)
Moving to OpenI18n, go to http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/lade/locale/
Locales, Locales, Locales,
at the 22nd international Unicode Conference (IUC22)
http://www.i18nguy.com/locales/iuc22-locales.html
Key points raised at the Locales Panel
discussion at IUC22
http://www.i18nguy.com/locales/iuc22-keypoints.html
IUC22 Presentation (PDF, 195Kb)
"What's wrong with Locales?"
http://www.I18nGuy.com/locales/Locales.pdf
IUC22 Locales Panel Paper (PDF, 177Kb)
RFC 3066   Tags for the Identification of Languages http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt (text)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3066.html (html)
RFC 1766   Tags for the Identification of Languages
(Obsolete)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt
ISO 3166   Codes (Country Names) http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html (intro page)
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html (HTML, English)
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-fr1.html (HTML, French)
CIA World Factbook   Appendix D, Cross-Reference List of Country Data Codes
IANA Registry of Assigned Language Tags
IETF Languages Home http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
http://eikenes.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/ Discussion Archives
ISO 639-2   Codes (Names of Languages)
Contains 639-1 and 639-2, 2- and 3-letter codes
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
ISO 639-2   Codes (Names of Languages) CHANGES document http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
Locales for East Africa (Yeha project) http://yeha.sourceforge.net/
ISO 639   Codes (Names of Languages)
(Obsolete)
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_639.html
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 (N0314/N0234) N3491
Enquiry to SC22 regarding recommendations for Locale Specification
for Internationalization and Localization
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3491.pdf
ISO 15924
Code for the representation of the names of scripts
http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/ http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/index.html
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/document/dis15924.pdf
Unicode's List of Languages and Scripts http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages-scripts.html
Correspondences of Language Codes:
ISO 639, Microsoft and Macintosh
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages.html
Correspondences of Country Codes:
ISO 3166, Microsoft, and Macintosh
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/countries.html
Microsoft CultureInfo Class http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGlobalizationCultureInfoClassTopic.asp
United Nations' Country or Area, Codes and Abbreviations http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49alpha.htm
Everson's ISO 3166-1 Code List http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html
European Commission's Countries and Currencies
(Translated into each of the European Union's languages)
Nice resource-Includes country familiar and official name and capital
http://europa.eu.int/comm/translation/currencies/entable1.htm
ISO 4217 Currency and funds codes http://www.bsi-global.com/Technical+Information/Publications/_Publications/tig90x.doc (Note- Microsoft Word document)
ISO 4217 Maintenance Agency
C++ http://www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_loc0.html
IBM AS400 locales http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AQ501/4.0?DT=19971201194621
Perl http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perllocale.html
Solving Compatibility Issues with POSIX,
by Bill Hall
http://www.multilingual.com/...
Locales and Resources in Windows CE,
by Bill Hall
http://www.multilingual.com/...
Suzanne Topping's Position Paper on Locales
for the W3C Internationalization Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop/Topping.html
I18nGuru's page on locales http://www.i18ngurus.com/docs/996709078.html
Open Group locale definitions
(Costs money)
http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/catalog/lo.htm
Linux http://www.ping.be/linux/locales/index.shtml
Universal locales for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/locale
Li18nux locales http://www.li18nux.org/docs/text/LocNameGuide-V10.txt
Li18nux Locale Naming Guide http://www.li18nux.org/localenameguide/
Microsoft Locales and Languages http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/loclanghome.mspx
Microsoft NLS Web http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb/default.asp
Microsoft Locale IDs http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k/setup/lcid.mspx (Win 2k)
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/winxp/xp-lcid.mspx (Win XP)
Solaris Locales http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/tools/lc/lc.cgi
Solaris Locales FAQ http://www.sun.com/developers/gadc/faq/locale.html
Sun's supported Locales
Java 2 version 1.4
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/intl/locale.doc.html
Java Locale Class
Java 2 version 1.4
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html
Java Resource Bundles
Java 2 version 1.4
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
Keld Simonsen's Locales ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/locales/
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Programming Language - Appendix D Locales http://www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_loc0.html
Clothing and Shoe Size Conversion Tables Clothing sizes http://www.I18nGuy.com/clothing.html
Shoe sizes http://www.I18nGuy.com/l10n/shoes.html

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