2 Module locale/language-info

8.12

2 Module locale/language-info🔗ℹ

More locale/language-info tools for Racket

Examples:

> (require locale/language-info)
> (get-codeset)
"ANSI_X3.4-1968"
> (get-datetime-format)
"%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y"
> (get-weekday-name 1)
"Sunday"
> (get-month-name 2)
"February"
> (get-era-description)
""
> (get-currency-symbol)
"-"

procedure
(get-codeset) → string?

Return a string with the name of the character encoding used in the selected locale, such as "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", or "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (better known as US-ASCII).

2.1 Date and Time formatting🔗ℹ

procedure
(get-datetime-format) → string?

Return a string that can be used as a format string to represent time and date in a locale-specific way.

procedure
(get-date-format) → string?

Return a string that can be used as a format string for strftime(3) to represent a date in a locale-specific way.

procedure
(get-time-format) → string?

Return a string that can be used as a format string for strftime(3) to represent a time in a locale-specific way.

procedure
(get-time-ampm-format) → string?

a.m. or p.m. time format string.

procedure
(get-am-string) → string?

Ante Meridian affix string.

procedure
(get-pm-string) → string?

Post Meridian affix string.

procedure
(get-weekday-name day) → string?
day : integer?

Return name of the n-th day of the week. Warning: this follows the US convention where Sunday is the first day of the week, not the international convention (ISO 8601) of Monday.

procedure
(get-abbrev-weekday-name day) → string?
day : integer?

Return abbreviated name of the n-th day of the week.

procedure
(get-month-name month) → string?
month : integer

Return name of the n-th month.

procedure
(get-abbrev-month-name month) → string?
month : integer

Return abbreviated name of the n-th month.

procedure
(get-era-description) → string?

Era description segments.

procedure
(get-era-date-format) → string?

Era date format string.

procedure
(get-era-datetime-format) → string?

Era date and time format string.

procedure
(get-era-time-format) → string?

Era time format string.

2.2 Numeric and Currency formatting🔗ℹ

procedure
(get-alt-digit-symbol) → string?

Alternative symbols for digits.

procedure
(get-radix-character) → string?

Return radix character (decimal dot, decimal comma, etc.).

procedure
(get-thousands-separator) → string?

Return separator character for thousands (groups of three digits).

procedure
(get-currency-symbol) → string?

Return the currency symbol, preceded by "-" if the symbol should appear before the value, "+" if the symbol should appear after the value, or "." if the symbol should replace the radix character.

2.3 Other formatting🔗ℹ

procedure
(get-yes-expression) → string?

Return a regular expression that can be used with the regexp function to recognize a positive response to a yes/no question.

procedure
(get-no-expression) → string?

Return a regular expression that can be used with the regexp function to recognize a negative response to a yes/no question.

1	Module locale
2	Module locale/ language-info
3	Module locale/ format
4	License

2.1	Date and Time formatting
2.2	Numeric and Currency formatting
2.3	Other formatting