nsILocale

From MDC

The nsILocale interface is used to determine the locale in use for a particular category of text.

Contents 1 Method overview 2 Methods 2.1 getCategory() 2.1.1 Parameters 2.1.2 Return value 2.2 See also

nsILocale is defined in intl/locale/idl/nsILocale.idl. It is scriptable and unfrozen (hasn't changed since Mozilla 1.0).

Inherits from: nsISupports

[edit] Method overview

AString getCategory(in AString category);

[edit] Methods

[edit] getCategory()

Retrieves a string with the current locale name.

 AString getCategory(AString category);

[edit] Parameters

category

A string representing the category to retrieve the locale for. Valid strings are stored in nsILocal.idl. Currently those are:

• NSILOCALE_COLLATE
• NSILOCALE_CTYPE
• NSILOCALE_MONETARY
• NSILOCALE_NUMERIC
• NSILOCALE_TIME
• NSILOCALE_MESSAGES

[edit] Return value

Returns the name of the locale.

[edit] See also

• XUL:stringbundle