LocaleData

LocaleData: Simplify Localization

Discover a comprehensive software solution for developers to access localization data, eliminating hard-coded date/time formats, number formats, measurement systems, and more for various locales.

What is LocaleData?

LocaleData is a software library that provides localization data and functionality to help developers easily internationalize and localize their applications. It contains information on language, country and cultural preferences around the world such as:

• Date, time and number formats for different locales
• Rules for plurals, gender, measurement systems etc.
• Common translated terms and phrases
• Text direction and other locale-specific preferences

By providing access to this locale data in an easy-to-use API, LocaleData eliminates the need for developers to hard-code any language or country-specific formats in their code. They can dynamically format dates, numbers, plurals etc. based on a chosen locale ID. The library handles all the complexity behind formatting these strings correctly.

LocaleData contains data for hundreds of languages across thousands of regional locales. And it is kept up-to-date by community contributions. Developers can use it to efficiently internationalize their applications and websites to support users from any locale in the world.

Some key features include: formatters for date, time and numbers; access to locale metadata like language name, country, calendars etc.; pluralization and gender rule support; sorting and transforming text based on locale; translation support and more. Overall, LocaleData aims to simplify localization and help developers write better internationalized applications.

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