gecko/intl/locale/nsILocale.idl

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
2012-05-21 04:12:37 -07:00
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
%{C++
#define NSILOCALE_COLLATE "NSILOCALE_COLLATE"
#define NSILOCALE_CTYPE "NSILOCALE_CTYPE"
#define NSILOCALE_MONETARY "NSILOCALE_MONETARY"
#define NSILOCALE_NUMERIC "NSILOCALE_NUMERIC"
#define NSILOCALE_TIME "NSILOCALE_TIME"
#define NSILOCALE_MESSAGE "NSILOCALE_MESSAGES"
#define NS_LOCALE_CONTRACTID "@mozilla.org/intl/nslocale;1"
%}
/**
* Represents one locale, which can be used for things like sorting text strings
* and formatting numbers, dates and times.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(21035ee0-4556-11d3-91cd-00105aa3f7dc)]
interface nsILocale : nsISupports
{
/**
* Get the locale code for a 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.
*
* A category is one of the following:
* NSILOCALE_CTYPE: Character classification and case conversion.
* NSILOCALE_COLLATE: Collation order. How strings are sorted.
* NSILOCALE_MONETARY: Monetary formatting.
* NSILOCALE_NUMERIC: Numeric, non-monetary formatting.
* NSILOCALE_TIME: Date and time formats.
* NSILOCALE_MESSAGES: Related to fonts, character encodings etc.
*
* @param category
* The category of interest.
* @return The locale code to be used for the given category.
*/
AString getCategory(in AString category);
};