CFLocale Reference

CFLocale provides basic functionality for language and/or region specific operations. More...

Detailed Description

Locale-sensitive operations, such as collation, calendars and capitalization, may use CFLocale objects to provide language and/or region specific functionality.

CFLocale is "toll-free bridged" to NSLocale.

Typedefs
typedef const struct __CFLocale *	CFLocaleRef
typedef CFIndex	CFLocaleLanguageDirection

Enumerations
enum	{   kCFLocaleLanguageDirectionUnknown = 0 , kCFLocaleLanguageDirectionLeftToRight = 1 , kCFLocaleLanguageDirectionRightToLeft = 2 , kCFLocaleLanguageDirectionTopToBottom = 3 ,   kCFLocaleLanguageDirectionBottomToTop = 4 }

Variables
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCurrentLocaleDidChangeNotification

CFLocale Property Keys
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleMeasurementSystem
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleDecimalSeparator
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleGroupingSeparator
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCurrencySymbol
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCurrencyCode
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleIdentifier
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleLanguageCode
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCountryCode
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleScriptCode
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleVariantCode
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleExemplarCharacterSet
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCalendarIdentifier
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCollationIdentifier
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleUsesMetricSystem
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleCollatorIdentifier
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleQuotationBeginDelimiterKey
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleQuotationEndDelimiterKey
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleAlternateQuotationBeginDelimiterKey
const CFStringRef	kCFLocaleAlternateQuotationEndDelimiterKey

CFCalendar Identifiers
const CFStringRef	kCFGregorianCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFBuddhistCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFChineseCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFHebrewCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFIslamicCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFIslamicCivilCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFJapaneseCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFRepublicOfChinaCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFPersianCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFIndianCalendar
const CFStringRef	kCFISO8601Calendar

Creating a Locale
CFLocaleRef	CFLocaleCopyCurrent (void)
CFLocaleRef	CFLocaleCreate (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFStringRef localeIdent)
CFLocaleRef	CFLocaleCreateCopy (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFLocaleRef locale)
CFLocaleRef	CFLocaleGetSystem (void)

Getting System Locale Information
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyAvailableLocaleIdentifiers (void)

Getting ISO Information
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyISOCountryCodes (void)
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyISOLanguageCodes (void)
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyISOCurrencyCodes (void)
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyCommonISOCurrencyCodes (void)

Accessing Language Information
CFArrayRef	CFLocaleCopyPreferredLanguages (void)
CFLocaleLanguageDirection	CFLocaleGetLanguageCharacterDirection (CFStringRef isoLangCode)
CFLocaleLanguageDirection	CFLocaleGetLanguageLineDirection (CFStringRef isoLangCode)

Getting Information About a Locale
CFStringRef	CFLocaleCopyDisplayNameForPropertyValue (CFLocaleRef displayLocale, CFStringRef key, CFStringRef value)
CFTypeRef	CFLocaleGetValue (CFLocaleRef locale, CFStringRef key)
CFStringRef	CFLocaleGetIdentifier (CFLocaleRef locale)

Getting and Creating Locale Identifiers
CFStringRef	CFLocaleCreateCanonicalLocaleIdentifierFromString (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFStringRef localeIdent)
CFStringRef	CFLocaleCreateCanonicalLanguageIdentifierFromString (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFStringRef localeIdent)
CFDictionaryRef	CFLocaleCreateComponentsFromLocaleIdentifier (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFStringRef localeIdent)
CFStringRef	CFLocaleCreateLocaleIdentifierFromComponents (CFAllocatorRef allocator, CFDictionaryRef dictionary)

Windows Locale Codes
CFStringRef	CFLocaleCreateLocaleIdentifierFromWindowsLocaleCode (CFAllocatorRef allocator, UInt32 lcid)
UInt32	CFLocaleGetWindowsLocaleCodeFromLocaleIdentifier (CFStringRef localeIdent)

Getting the CFLocale Type ID
CFTypeID	CFLocaleGetTypeID (void)

Variable Documentation

kCFLocaleCurrentLocaleDidChangeNotification

const CFStringRef kCFLocaleCurrentLocaleDidChangeNotification

CFLocale Change Notification