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+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-457CC544-EC3B-4863-A5C4-DC7046614929" xml:lang="en"><title>Locale-sensitive
+data types</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>Mobile device users can often select presentation styles for data types
+that vary between different countries and regions based on preferred conventions
+grouped according to locale. Locale is a concept that attempts to identify
+cultural conventions (including a language) like number, date and time formatting,
+currencies, sorting, and so on. Locale can also contain country-specific conventions,
+such as time zones. To clarify the idea of locale, consider for instance English.
+The English variant for United Kingdom requires different settings than the
+variant for the US market. For example, they have different date formats,
+different first day of the week, different currency symbol, different time
+zone, different international country dialing code, and so on. All these settings
+come from locale, which should be called by applications.</p>
+<p>The Symbian platform maintains locale-based data type information internally.</p>
+<p>Examples of the classes that the Symbian platform provides for correctly
+formatting data types for the current locale of the mobile device include
+the following items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><xref href="jar:GUID-35228542-8C95-4849-A73F-2B4F082F0C44.jar!/sdk/doc_source/reference/reference-cpp/Kernel_Architecture_2/TLocaleClass.html" format="application/java-archive"><parmname>TLocale</parmname></xref> allows
+access to the locale settings</p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="jar:GUID-35228542-8C95-4849-A73F-2B4F082F0C44.jar!/sdk/doc_source/reference/reference-cpp/Kernel_Architecture_2/TTimeClass.html" format="application/java-archive"><parmname>TTime</parmname></xref> provides
+date and time methods</p></li>
+<li><p><xref href="jar:GUID-35228542-8C95-4849-A73F-2B4F082F0C44.jar!/sdk/doc_source/reference/reference-cpp/Kernel_Architecture_2/TRealFormatClass.html" format="application/java-archive"><parmname>TRealFormat</parmname></xref> allows
+access to the locale settings relevant to real number types</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Use these classes in your code when you need to format the relevant
+data types.</p>
+<p>For information on converting character set encodings, see <xref href="jar:GUID-35228542-8C95-4849-A73F-2B4F082F0C44.jar!/sdk/doc_source/guide/System-Libraries-subsystem-guide/CharacterConversion/index.html" format="application/java-archive">Using
+Character Conversion (CHARCONV)</xref>.</p>
+<p/>
+</conbody></concept>
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