Locale语言区域
A locale is a setting that combines a language with a specific region or country, such as zh-CN for Simplified Chinese in China. In localization, locale data controls formats for dates, times, numbers, currency, sorting, and other conventions that differ even among speakers of the same language; software and content systems use locale identifiers to select the correct resources and behavior.
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Where this term appears
Locale information appears in software localization files, content management systems, and translation project metadata. Localization engineers set locale codes for each target market and use them to resolve locale-specific resources, date formats, plural rules, and default sorting; translators may also see locale tags in file names, UI previews, or translation memory entries.
Translation checks
A common error is treating a language code as equivalent to a locale, such as assuming Spanish works the same in Spain and Latin America. This can assign the wrong date, currency, plural rules, or terminology to a market, making content feel incorrect, confusing users, and triggering in-country review failures or functional bugs.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Creative and consumer content needs accurate meaning as well as tone and context. Subtitles, interfaces and voice scripts also require checks for timing, character limits and pronunciation.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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