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| 1 .. -*- mode: rst; encoding: utf-8 -*- | |
| 2 | |
| 3 ==================== | |
| 4 Locale Display Names | |
| 5 ==================== | |
| 6 | |
| 7 .. contents:: Contents | |
| 8 :depth: 2 | |
| 9 .. sectnum:: | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 Introduction | |
| 13 ============ | |
| 14 | |
| 15 While `message catalogs <messages.html>`_ allow you to localize any messages | |
| 16 in your application, there are a number of strings that are used in many | |
| 17 applications for which translations are readily available. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 Imagine for example you have a list of countries that users can choose from, | |
| 20 and you'd like to display the names of those countries in the language the | |
| 21 user prefers. Instead of translating all those country names yourself in your | |
| 22 application, you can make use of the translations provided by the locale data | |
| 23 included with Babel, which is based on the `Common Locale Data Repository | |
| 24 (CLDR) <http://unicode.org/cldr/>`_ developed and maintained by the `Unicode | |
| 25 Consortium <http://unicode.org/>`_. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 | |
| 28 The ``Locale`` Class | |
| 29 ==================== | |
| 30 | |
| 31 You normally access such locale data through the `Locale`_ class provided | |
| 32 by Babel: | |
| 33 | |
| 34 .. code-block:: pycon | |
| 35 | |
| 36 >>> from babel import Locale | |
| 37 >>> locale = Locale('en', 'US') | |
| 38 >>> locale.territories['US'] | |
| 39 u'United States' | |
| 40 >>> locale = Locale('es', 'MX') | |
| 41 >>> locale.territories['US'] | |
| 42 u'Estados Unidos' | |
| 43 | |
| 44 .. _`Locale`: api/babel.core.Locale-class.html | |
| 45 | |
| 46 In addition to country/territory names, the locale data also provides access to | |
| 47 names of languages, scripts, variants, time zones, and more. Some of the data | |
| 48 is closely related to number and date formatting. | |
| 49 | |
| 50 Most of the corresponding ``Locale`` properties return dictionaries, where the | |
| 51 key is a code such as the ISO country and language codes. Consult the API | |
| 52 documentation for references to the relevant specifications. | |
| 53 | |
| 54 | |
| 55 Calender Display Names | |
| 56 ====================== | |
| 57 | |
| 58 The `Locale`_ class provides access to many locale display names related to | |
| 59 calendar display, such as the names of week days or months. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 These display names are of course used for date formatting, but can also be | |
| 62 used, for example, to show a list of months to the user in their preferred | |
| 63 language: | |
| 64 | |
| 65 .. code-block:: pycon | |
| 66 | |
| 67 >>> locale = Locale('es') | |
| 68 >>> month_names = locale.months['format']['wide'].items() | |
| 69 >>> month_names.sort() | |
| 70 >>> for idx, name in month_names: | |
| 71 ... print name | |
| 72 enero | |
| 73 febrero | |
| 74 marzo | |
| 75 abril | |
| 76 mayo | |
| 77 junio | |
| 78 julio | |
| 79 agosto | |
| 80 septiembre | |
| 81 octubre | |
| 82 noviembre | |
| 83 diciembre |