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<chapter id="charset">
<title>Localization</>
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<para>
- This example sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken
+ This example for Unix systems sets the locale to Swedish
+ (<literal>sv</>) as spoken
in Sweden (<literal>SE</>). Other possibilities might be
<literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (French
Canadian). If more than one character set can be useful for a
locale then the specifications look like this:
<literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available under what
names on your system depends on what was provided by the operating
- system vendor and what was installed. (On most systems, the command
- <literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.)
+ system vendor and what was installed. On most Unix systems, the command
+ <literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.
+ Windows uses more verbose names, such as <literal>German_Germany</>.
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