<h1>Overview</h1> <p>The <code>Locale</code> class implements the <span class="caps">IETF</span> language tags defined in <span class="caps">RFC</span> 4646 and <span class="caps">RFC</span> 4647.</p> <ul> <li>The class will be String-like but will not inherit from <code>String</code>.</li> <li>The class will be case-insensitive, which will influence the various equality, comparison and hash methods.</li> <li>The class will provide <code>to_s</code>.</li> </ul> <p>Here is a quick outline of the class. Attributes may or may not be read-only:</p> <pre> <code> class Locale # is this a String? maybe not. attr :language, :script, :region, :variant, :extension, :private_use def valid? # validate against RFC4646 end def parent # return 'en' for 'en-US' etc. end end </code> </pre> 2008-08-11T04:37:15-07:00 44352 locale-class 39249 2008-08-11T04:37:15-07:00 4651