Locales
The concept of the locale is central to internationalization. It is the foundation for all other aspects of software internationalization. At its most basic a locale represents the language of a user. This is handled by combining a language and country code.
Java uses ISO 639 codes for languages and ISO 3166-2 codes for country. ICU4J combines the two codes with a potential script name and appends additional data to the end after an '@'. That additional data could refer to a calendar type or collation order, etc...
For example:
zh = Chinese
zh_HK = Chinese in Hong Kong
zh_Hans_HK = Chinese in Hong Kong using Simplified Han writing system
zh_Hans_HK@calendar=buddhist = Chinese in Hong Kong using a Simplifies Han writing system and using a Buddhist calendar
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