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Per language spoken in the country | |
But there is a distinction between american english, uk english etc as well. Hence, you need to separate as well in language. These 2 fields will comprise the actual primary key btw. In fact, part of the browser settings that get sent over. Apache for one can make those values sent by the client's browser retrievable. That way you know some localisation. IE can set what language setting you prefer before what other. Especially handy if you'd want some i18n. There is always a default language (mostly us_en or uk_en). |
Per script used in a language | |
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Date/Time | |
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Currencies | |
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Addressformat | |
The formatting for all of them is slightly different, but I can tell you that a belgian address formatted in a uk or usa way looks awfull and a letter probably will not get delivered if you send a snailmail to it. That is why this is important. Field of application
Feel free to continue and add to this page as much as you can/want. Especially if I left some things out. |