GENERAL ======= In KDE 2 we added support for localization of dates, time, numbers and money. KDE will use this when displaying such information, giving you a feeling that KDE was written to fit your national standards. To make this possible, we need to gather some information on your national standards. Currently there is over 220 countries supported. If your country is missing, please let us know. HOW TO ADD INFORMATION ====================== First you have to write a file called "entry.desktop". This file will describe your national standards. Please read the section below for more information on that. Please use the file "country.template" as template. You will need a nice flag for your country. The size should be 21x14 pixels, and it should be called "flag.png". To add your information, we need a two letter country code for you country. Use http://www.tu-berlin.de/zrz/dienste/netz/mail/iso-3166.html as a guide. Now you are done, and you can submit the files to KDE project by sending a mail to Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org>. The files will be added in the next release. Please include the country code in the mail. WHAT IS ENTRY.DESKTOP ===================== entry.desktop is a file which defines a locale for a country. It's stored the same way as the rest of the KDE configuration files. The very first line should only contain "[KCM Locale]". The rest of the file should contain one line for each of the entries below. Add "=" between the entry name and the value. * Author The name of the email address to reach you. Default: blank * Name The name of the country in English. Default: blank * Region Defines which submenu the country belongs to. Currently there are 19 different regions: centralasia (Central Asia), eastasia (East Asia), southasia (South Asia), southeastasia(South-East Asia), middleeast (Middle-East/West Asia) centralafrica (Central Africa), northafrica (Northern Africa), southafrica (Southern Africa), westafrica (Western Africa), easteurope (Eastern Europe), westeurope (Western Europe), southeurope (Southern Europe), northeurope (Northern Europe), centraleurope (Central Europe), northamerica (North America), southamerica (South America), centralemarica (Central America), caribbean (Caribbean) and oceania (Oceania). Default: blank * Languages A comma separated list of locale codes for the official languages of the country. Default: blank * DecimalSymbol The symbol that separates the decimals from the rest of the number. Default: "." * ThousandsSeparator Thousands separator. Default: "," * CurrencySymbol The symbol of the currency used in the country. Default: "$" * MonetaryDecimalSymbol The symbol that separates the decimals from the rest of the number when displaying. Default: "." * MonetaryThousandsSeparator Thousands separator for money. Default: "," * PositiveSign Positive sign for money. Note: this will be used for formatting numbers. Do not add "+" if you don't really want numbers to be formatted that way. Default: "" * NegativeSign Negative sign for money. Default: "-" * FracDigits Number fract digits used for money Default: 2 * PositivePrefixCurrencySymbol If currency symbol should be prepended (if not, it will be appended). This is for non-negative money values. Default: true * NegativePrefixCurrencySymbol If currency symbol should be prepended (if not, it will be appended). This is for negative money values. Default: true * PositiveMonetarySignPosition Defines which type and where the sign (if it's positive or negative) should be placed. This is for non-negative money values. 0 ParensAround 1 BeforeQuantityMoney 2 AfterQuantityMoney 3 BeforeMoney 4 AfterMoney Default: 1 * NegativeMonetarySignPosition Same as PositiveMonetarySignPosition, but for negative numbers. Default: 0 * DateFormat[language code] This defines how a date is formated. The date string will be contructed from this string and the sequences below will be replaced. This should be marked with a language code as well for each supported language. %Y The year with century as a decimal number. %y The year without century as a decimal number (00-99). %m The month as a decimal number (01-12). %n The month as a decimal number (1-12). %b The national representation of the abbreviated month name, where the abbreviation is the first three characters. %B The national representation of the full month name. %d The day of month as a decimal number (01-31). %e The day of month as a decimal number (1-31). %a The national representation of the abbreviated weekday name, where the abbreviation is the first three characters. %A The national representation of the full weekday name. Default: "%A %d %B %Y" * DateFormatShort This is the same as DateFormat, but is used when the program asks for a short date. Usally this is used when listing files etc. Default: "%Y-%m-%d" * TimeFormat This defines how a times are formated. The date string will be contructed from this string and the sequences below will be replaced. %H The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23). %k The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to 23). %I The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12). %l The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to 12). %M The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59). %S The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 59). %p Either AM or PM according to the given time value. AM or PM are translating to the current language. Noon is treated as PM and midnight as AM. Default: "%H:%M:%S" * WeekStartDay This defines which day is the first of the week. Accepted value is an integer number where 1 means Monday, 2 Tuesday, and so on. Default: 1 * MeasureSystem This defines which measure system we should use. There are two values here, 0 for Metric and 1 for Imperial. Metric would give you meters (or cm/mm), while Imperial would give you inches. Default: 0 * PageSize This defines which page size we should use by default. It should be the number of the item in the QPrinter::PageSize enum. Here are some values: 0 A4 1 B5 2 US Letter ...and so on Default: 0 * CalendarSystem This defines which calendar system should use. This is currently not supported by the KDE internals. Here are some values: gregorian hijri Default: gregorian * AddressFormat * BusinessAddressFormat * AddressCountryPosition These fields define the formatting of postal addresses. For detailled information on these fields' format, please refer to kdelibs/kabc/README.AddressFormat Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org> Lukas Tinkl <lukas@kde.org>