Ada Programming/Libraries/Ada.Locales

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This language feature has been introduced in Ada 2012.

Ada.Locales is a unit of the Predefined Language Environment since Ada 2012.

Specification

--                     Standard Ada library specification
--   Copyright (c) 2004-2016 AXE Consultants
--   Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2006 Ada-Europe
--   Copyright (c) 2000 The MITRE Corporation, Inc.
--   Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Intermetrics, Inc.
--   SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause and LicenseRef-AdaReferenceManual
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

package Ada.Locales is
   pragma Preelaborate(Locales);
   pragma Remote_Types(Locales);

   type Language_Code is new String (1 .. 3)
      with Dynamic_Predicate =>
         (for all E of Language_Code => E in 'a' .. 'z');
   type Country_Code is new String (1 .. 2)
      with Dynamic_Predicate =>
         (for all E of Country_Code  => E in 'A' .. 'Z');

   Language_Unknown : constant Language_Code := "und";
   Country_Unknown : constant Country_Code := "ZZ";

   function Language return Language_Code;
   function Country return Country_Code;

end Ada.Locales;

See also

Wikibook

• Ada Programming/Libraries/Ada

External examples

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Ada Reference Manual

Ada 2012

• A.19: The Package Locales ^[Annotated]

Open-Source Implementations

FSF GNAT

• Specification: a-locale.ads
• Body: a-locale.adb

drake

• Specification: environment/a-locale.ads
• Body: environment/a-locale.adb