<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Rick Beton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" dir="ltr">2009/9/3 Ralph Goers <<a href="mailto:ralph.goers@dslextreme.com">ralph.goers@dslextreme.com</a>></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div style=""><div class="im"><br></div><div>Actually, a locale supports language, country, region and variant. If an I18n component doesn't support all of those it isn't a viable solution.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br><br>Yes, I made a mistake - see <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html">http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html</a><br>It's actually language, country, variant - there is no region component. The documentation for Locale cites target machine type as a possible use-case for the variant part.<br>
</div></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div>Thanks, I should have realized (another difference in spelling) that you meant variant when you said region.</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph</div></body></html>