'locale' => {

'lang' => 'en_US',

'langs' => {

'en_US' => 1,

},

'country' => 'CA',

'utf8' => ''

}

'lang'

specifies the default language (see table below), not a locale. For example, all locales speaking French (fr_FR fr_CH fr_BE fr_CA) it's 'fr', for all locales speaking American English it's 'en_US'. This parameter will be used to set the language-oriented locales environment variables (LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, etc.). See file Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/lang.pm declaration for
%lang which may contain a more up to date list.

'langs'

contains a list of one or more languages used to select the 'locales-*' packages for installation.

'country'

specifies the 2 letter acronym for your country. For example, France will be 'FR', USA will be 'US'. This parameter will be used to set the country-oriented locales environment variables (LC_NUMERIC, LC_MONETARY, etc). See file Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/lang.pm declaration for
%country which may contain a more up to date list.

'utf8' => 1,

used to force UTF-8 locales. However, it is normally left unset
('utf8' => ''). Drakx will determine if it needs to be set; usually when multiple languages with different character sets have been listed in 'langs'.

'af'

Afrikaans

iso-8859-1

'am'

Amharic

utf_am

'ar'

Arabic

utf_ar

'as'

Assamse

utf_bn

'az'

Azeri (latin)

utf_az

'be'

Belarussian

cp1251

'bg'

Bulgarian

cp1251

'bn'

Bengali

utf_bn

'br'

Brezhoneg

iso-8859-15

'bs'

Bosnian

iso-8859-2

'ca'

Catalan

iso-8859-15

'cs'

Czech

iso-8859-2

'cy'

Welsh

utf_lat8

'da'

Danish

iso-8859-15

'de'

German

iso-8859-15

'el'

Greek

iso-8859-7

'en_US'

English (US)

C

'en_GB'

English (UK)

iso-8859-15

'en_IE'

English (Ireland)

iso-8859-15

'eo'

Esperanto

unicode

'es'

Spanish (Spain, modern sorting)

iso-8859-15

'et'

Estonian

iso-8859-15

'eu'

Euskara (Basque)

iso-8859-15

'fa'

Farsi (Iranian)

utf_ar

'fi'

Finnish (Suomi)

iso-8859-15

'fo'

Faroese

iso-8859-15

'fr'

French

iso-8859-15

'ga'

Gaelic (Irish)

iso-8859-15

'gl'

Galician

iso-8859-15

'gu'

Gujarati

unicode

'he'

Hebrew

utf_he

'hi'

Hindi

unicode

'hr'

Croatian

iso-8859-2

'hu'

Hungarian

iso-8859-2

'hy'

Armenian

utf_hy

'id'

Indonesian

iso-8859-1

'is'

Icelandic

iso-8859-1

'it'

Italian

iso-8859-15

'ja'

Japanese

jisx0208

'ka'

Georgian

utf_ka

'kn'

Kannada

utf_kn

'ko'

Korean

ksc5601

'ku'

Kurdish

iso-8859-9

'li'

Limbourgish

iso-8859-15

'lo

Laotian

utf_lo

'lt'

Lithuanian

iso-8859-13

'lv'

Latvian

iso-8859-13

'mi'

Maori

unicode

'mk'

Macedonian

utf_cyr1

'ml'

Malayalam

unicode

'mn'

Mongolian

utf_cyr2

'mr'

Marathi

unicode

'ms'

Malay

iso-8859-1

'mt'

Maltese

unicode

'nb'

Norwegian Bokmaal

iso-8859-1

'ne'

Nepali

unicode

'nl'

Dutch (Netherlands)

iso-8859-15

'nn'

Norwegian Nynorsk

iso-8859-1

'oc'

Occitan

iso-8859-1

'pl'

Polish

iso-8859-2

'pt_BR'

Portuguese (Brazil)

iso-8859-1

'pt'

Portuguese

iso-8859-15

'ro'

Romanian

iso-8859-2

'ru'

Russian

koi8-u

'se'

Saami

unicode

'sk'

Slovak

iso-8859-2

'sl'

Slovenian

iso-8859-2

'sq'

Albanian

iso-8859-1

'sr'

Serbian (Cyrillic)

iso-8859-5

'sr@Latn'

Serbian (Latin)

iso-8859-2

'ss'

Swati

iso-8859-1

'st'

Sotho

iso-8859-1

'sv'

Swedish

iso-8859-1

'ta'

Tamil

utf_ta

'te'

Telugu

unicode

'tg'

Tajik

utf_cyr2

'th'

Thai

tis620

'tr'

Turkish

iso-8859-9

'uk'

Ukrainian

koi8-u

'uz@Latn'

Uzbek (Latin)

utf_cyr2

'uz'

Uzbek (Cyrillic)

utf_cyr2

've'

Venda

iso-8859-1

'vi'

Vietnamese

utf_vi

'wa'

Walon

iso-8859-15

'xh'

Xhosa

iso-8859-1

'yi'

Yiddish

utf_he

'zh_TW'

Chinese (Traditional)

Big5

'zh_CN'

Chinese (Simplified)

gb2312

'zu'

Zulu

iso-8859-1

Not all languages are supported by all applications. The third column, above, is the character set for the language.