System locale name management

摘要

Mechanisms are provided for performing a locale name modification operation. The mechanisms receive, via a locale name management user interface presented by the data processing system, a new locale name to be used by the data processing system to perform locale customized operations. The mechanisms identify an existing locale name to be replaced by the new locale name. The mechanisms map the new locale name to existing locale name data structures associated with the existing locale name to be replaced and verify proper operation of a software element using the new locale name and the mapping of the new locale name to the existing locale name data structures. The mechanisms utilize the new locale name to perform locale name customized operations in response to verifying proper operation of the software element.

主权项

1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:
receive, via a locale name management user interface, a new locale name to be used by the data processing system to perform locale customized operations; identify an existing locale name to be replaced by the new locale name; map the new locale name to existing locale name data structures associated with the existing locale name to be replaced; verify proper operation of a software element using the new locale name and the mapping of the new locale name to the existing locale name data structures; and utilize the new locale name to perform locale name customized operations in response to verifying proper operation of the software element, wherein the new locale name and the existing locale name are designators of a similar locale, and wherein a locale represents a set of rules and parameters of cultural conventions to be used by at least one of operating systems or applications when performing the locale customized operations on the computing device.