Struct locale_config::LanguageRange

pub struct LanguageRange<'a> { /* fields omitted */ }

Language and culture identifier.

This object holds a RFC4647 extended language range.

The internal data may be owned or shared from object with lifetime 'a. The lifetime can be extended using the into_static() method, which internally clones the data as needed.

Syntax

The range is composed of --separated alphanumeric subtags, possibly replaced by *s. It might be empty.

In agreement with RFC4647, this object only requires that the tag matches:

language_tag = (alpha{1,8} | "*")
               ("-" (alphanum{1,8} | "*"))*

The exact interpretation is up to the downstream localization provider, but it expected that it will be matched against a normalized RFC5646 language tag, which has the structure:

language_tag    = language
                  ("-" script)?
                  ("-" region)?
                  ("-" variant)*
                  ("-" extension)*
                  ("-" private)?

language        = alpha{2,3} ("-" alpha{3}){0,3}

script          = aplha{4}

region          = alpha{2}
                | digit{3}

variant         = alphanum{5,8}
                | digit alphanum{3}

extension       = [0-9a-wyz] ("-" alphanum{2,8})+

private         = "x" ("-" alphanum{1,8})+

• language is an ISO639 2-letter or, where not defined, 3-letter code. A code for macro-language might be followed by code of specific dialect.
• script is an ISO15924 4-letter code.
• region is either an ISO3166 2-letter code or, for areas other than countries, UN M.49 3-digit numeric code.
• variant is a string indicating variant of the language.
• extension and private define additional options. The private part has same structure as the Unicode -u- extension. Available options are documented for the facets that use them.

The values obtained by inspecting the system are normalized according to those rules.

The content will be case-normalized as recommended in RFC5646 §2.1.1, namely:

• language is written in lowercase,
• script is written with first capital,
• country is written in uppercase and
• all other subtags are written in lowercase.

When detecting system configuration, additional options that may be generated under the -u- extension currently are:

• cf — Currency format (account for parenthesized negative values, standard for minus sign).
• fw — First day of week (mon to sun).
• hc — Hour cycle (h12 for 1–12, h23 for 0–23).
• ms — Measurement system (metric or ussystem).
• nu — Numbering system—only decimal systems are currently used.
• va — Variant when locale is specified in Unix format and the tag after @ does not correspond to any variant defined in Language subtag registry.

And under the -x- extension, following options are defined:

• df — Date format:

  • iso: Short date should be in ISO format of yyyy-MM-dd.

  For example -df-iso.

• dm — Decimal separator for monetary:

  Followed by one or more Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal. For example -dm-002d means to use comma.

• ds — Decimal separator for numbers:

  Followed by one or more Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal. For example -ds-002d means to use comma.

• gm — Group (thousand) separator for monetary:

  Followed by one or more Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal. For example -dm-00a0 means to use non-breaking space.

• gs — Group (thousand) separator for numbers:

  Followed by one or more Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal. For example -ds-00a0 means to use non-breaking space.

• ls — List separator:

  Followed by one or more Unicode codepoints in hexadecimal. For example, -ds-003b means to use a semicolon.

Methods

impl<'a> LanguageRange<'a>

fn new(lt: &'a str) -> Result<LanguageRange, Error>

Construct LanguageRange from string, with normalization.

LanguageRange must follow the RFC4647 syntax. It will be case-normalized as recommended in RFC5646 §2.1.1, namely:

• language, if recognized, is written in lowercase,
• script, if recognized, is written with first capital,
• country, if recognized, is written in uppercase and
• all other subtags are written in lowercase.

fn invariant() -> LanguageRange<'static>

Return LanguageRange for the invariant locale.

Invariant language is identified simply by empty string.

fn into_static(self) -> LanguageRange<'static>

Clone the internal data to extend lifetime.

fn to_shared(&'a self) -> Self

Create new instance sharing the internal data.

fn from_unix(s: &str) -> Result<LanguageRange<'static>, Error>

Create language tag from Unix/Linux/GNU locale tag.

Unix locale tags have the form

language [ _ region ] [ . encoding ] [ @ variant ]

The language and region have the same format as RFC5646. Encoding is not relevant here, since Rust always uses Utf-8. That leaves variant, which is unfortunately rather free-form. So this function will translate known variants to corresponding RFC5646 subtags and represent anything else with Unicode POSIX variant (-u-va-) extension.

Note: This function is public here for benefit of applications that may come across this kind of tags from other sources than system configuration.

Trait Implementations

impl<'a> Clone for LanguageRange<'a>

fn clone(&self) -> LanguageRange<'a>

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl<'a> Debug for LanguageRange<'a>

fn fmt(&self, __arg_0: &mut Formatter) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'a> Eq for LanguageRange<'a>

impl<'a> Hash for LanguageRange<'a>

fn hash<__H: Hasher>(&self, __arg_0: &mut __H)

Feeds this value into the state given, updating the hasher as necessary.

fn hash_slice<H>(data: &[Self], state: &mut H) where H: Hasher

Feeds a slice of this type into the state provided.

impl<'a> PartialEq for LanguageRange<'a>

fn eq(&self, __arg_0: &LanguageRange<'a>) -> bool

This method tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, __arg_0: &LanguageRange<'a>) -> bool

This method tests for !=.

impl<'a> AsRef<str> for LanguageRange<'a>

fn as_ref(&self) -> &str

Performs the conversion.

impl<'a> Display for LanguageRange<'a>

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.