3.5 Locales

Procedures related locales.

Function: current-locale

returns the current locale.

Function: current-country [country]

Function: current-language [language]

Function: current-locale-details [details …]

[SRFI-29] sets country code, language code and locale details, respectively.

Function: available-locales

returns the list of all avaliable locales.

Function: iso-countries

Function: iso-languages

returns country codes and language codes, respectively.

Special Form: locale language [country] [variant]

creates a locale.
The arguments must be symbols because this is a special form.

Function: make-locale language [country] [variant]

creates a locale
Constant symbols as an argument must be quoted because this is a procedure.

Function: locale-country locale

Function: locale-language locale

Function: locale-variant locale

Function: locale-iso3-country locale

Function: locale-iso3-language locale

returns a country code, a language code, a variant, an ISO3 country code and an ISO3 language code of the given locale, respectively.

Function: locale-country-name locale locale2

Function: locale-language-name locale locale2

Function: locale-variant-name locale locale2

returns the name of locale expressed under the locale2

Function: print-date format-string date [locale]

formats a SRFI-19 date by format-string.
format-string is the same as java.text.SimpleDateFormat.

Function: parse-date format-string string [locale]

parses the string by format-string and returns the parsed SRFI-19 date.
format-string is the same as java.text.SimpleDateFormat.

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