Struct icu::locale::Locale

pub struct Locale {
    pub id: LanguageIdentifier,
    pub extensions: Extensions,
}

A core struct representing a Unicode Locale Identifier.

A locale is made of two parts:

• Unicode Language Identifier
• A set of Unicode Extensions

Locale exposes all of the same fields and methods as LanguageIdentifier, and on top of that is able to parse, manipulate and serialize unicode extension fields.

Parsing

Unicode recognizes three levels of standard conformance for a locale:

• well-formed - syntactically correct
• valid - well-formed and only uses registered language subtags, extensions, keywords, types…
• canonical - valid and no deprecated codes or structure.

At the moment parsing normalizes a well-formed locale identifier converting _ separators to - and adjusting casing to conform to the Unicode standard.

Any syntactically invalid subtags will cause the parsing to fail with an error.

This operation normalizes syntax to be well-formed. No legacy subtag replacements is performed. For validation and canonicalization, see LocaleCanonicalizer.

Ordering

This type deliberately does not implement Ord or PartialOrd because there are multiple possible orderings, and the team did not want to favor one over any other.

Instead, there are functions available that return these different orderings:

• Locale::strict_cmp
• Locale::total_cmp

See issue: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/issues/1215

Examples

Simple example:

use icu::locale::{
    extensions::unicode::{key, value},
    locale,
    subtags::{language, region},
};

let loc = locale!("en-US-u-ca-buddhist");

assert_eq!(loc.id.language, language!("en"));
assert_eq!(loc.id.script, None);
assert_eq!(loc.id.region, Some(region!("US")));
assert_eq!(loc.id.variants.len(), 0);
assert_eq!(
    loc.extensions.unicode.keywords.get(&key!("ca")),
    Some(&value!("buddhist"))
);

More complex example:

use icu::locale::{subtags::*, Locale};

let loc: Locale = "eN_latn_Us-Valencia_u-hC-H12"
    .parse()
    .expect("Failed to parse.");

assert_eq!(loc.id.language, "en".parse::<Language>().unwrap());
assert_eq!(loc.id.script, "Latn".parse::<Script>().ok());
assert_eq!(loc.id.region, "US".parse::<Region>().ok());
assert_eq!(
    loc.id.variants.get(0),
    "valencia".parse::<Variant>().ok().as_ref()
);

Fields

id: LanguageIdentifier

The basic language/script/region components in the locale identifier along with any variants.

extensions: Extensions

Any extensions present in the locale identifier.

Implementations

impl Locale

pub fn try_from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Locale, ParseError>

A constructor which takes a utf8 slice, parses it and produces a well-formed Locale.

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;

Locale::try_from_str("en-US-u-hc-h12").unwrap();

pub fn try_from_utf8(code_units: &[u8]) -> Result<Locale, ParseError>

See Self::try_from_str

pub const fn default() -> Locale

Const-friendly version of Default::default.

pub fn normalize_utf8(input: &[u8]) -> Result<Cow<'_, str>, ParseError>

Normalize the locale (operating on UTF-8 formatted byte slices)

This operation will normalize casing and the separator.

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;

assert_eq!(
    Locale::normalize_utf8(b"pL_latn_pl-U-HC-H12").as_deref(),
    Ok("pl-Latn-PL-u-hc-h12")
);

pub fn normalize(input: &str) -> Result<Cow<'_, str>, ParseError>

Normalize the locale (operating on strings)

This operation will normalize casing and the separator.

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;

assert_eq!(
    Locale::normalize("pL_latn_pl-U-HC-H12").as_deref(),
    Ok("pl-Latn-PL-u-hc-h12")
);

pub fn strict_cmp(&self, other: &[u8]) -> Ordering

Compare this Locale with BCP-47 bytes.

The return value is equivalent to what would happen if you first converted this Locale to a BCP-47 string and then performed a byte comparison.

This function is case-sensitive and results in a total order, so it is appropriate for binary search. The only argument producing Ordering::Equal is self.to_string().

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;
use std::cmp::Ordering;

let bcp47_strings: &[&str] = &[
    "pl-Latn-PL",
    "und",
    "und-fonipa",
    "und-t-m0-true",
    "und-u-ca-hebrew",
    "und-u-ca-japanese",
    "zh",
];

for ab in bcp47_strings.windows(2) {
    let a = ab[0];
    let b = ab[1];
    assert!(a.cmp(b) == Ordering::Less);
    let a_loc = a.parse::<Locale>().unwrap();
    assert!(a_loc.strict_cmp(a.as_bytes()) == Ordering::Equal);
    assert!(a_loc.strict_cmp(b.as_bytes()) == Ordering::Less);
}

pub fn total_cmp(&self, other: &Locale) -> Ordering

Returns an ordering suitable for use in BTreeSet.

Unlike Locale::strict_cmp, the ordering may or may not be equivalent to string ordering, and it may or may not be stable across ICU4X releases.

Examples

Using a wrapper to add one of these to a BTreeSet:

use icu::locale::Locale;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use std::collections::BTreeSet;

#[derive(PartialEq, Eq)]
struct LocaleTotalOrd(Locale);

impl Ord for LocaleTotalOrd {
    fn cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Ordering {
        self.0.total_cmp(&other.0)
    }
}

impl PartialOrd for LocaleTotalOrd {
    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<Ordering> {
        Some(self.cmp(other))
    }
}

let _: BTreeSet<LocaleTotalOrd> = unimplemented!();

pub fn normalizing_eq(&self, other: &str) -> bool

Compare this Locale with a potentially unnormalized BCP-47 string.

The return value is equivalent to what would happen if you first parsed the BCP-47 string to a Locale and then performed a structural comparison.

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;

let bcp47_strings: &[&str] = &[
    "pl-LaTn-pL",
    "uNd",
    "UND-FONIPA",
    "UnD-t-m0-TrUe",
    "uNd-u-CA-Japanese",
    "ZH",
];

for a in bcp47_strings {
    assert!(a.parse::<Locale>().unwrap().normalizing_eq(a));
}

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Locale

fn clone(&self) -> Locale

Returns a copy of the value.

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

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Locale

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for Locale

fn default() -> Locale

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Display for Locale

This trait is implemented for compatibility with fmt!. To create a string, [Writeable::write_to_string] is usually more efficient.

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl From<&Locale> for CollatorPreferences

fn from(loc: &Locale) -> CollatorPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<&Locale> for ListFormatterPreferences

fn from(loc: &Locale) -> ListFormatterPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<&Locale> for LocalePreferences

fn from(loc: &Locale) -> LocalePreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<&Locale> for PluralRulesPreferences

fn from(loc: &Locale) -> PluralRulesPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<(Language, Option<Script>, Option<Region>)> for Locale

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;
use icu::locale::{
    locale,
    subtags::{language, region, script},
};

assert_eq!(
    Locale::from((
        language!("en"),
        Some(script!("Latn")),
        Some(region!("US"))
    )),
    locale!("en-Latn-US")
);

fn from(lsr: (Language, Option<Script>, Option<Region>)) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<CollatorPreferences> for Locale

fn from(other: CollatorPreferences) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Language> for Locale

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;
use icu::locale::{locale, subtags::language};

assert_eq!(Locale::from(language!("en")), locale!("en"));

fn from(language: Language) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<LanguageIdentifier> for Locale

fn from(id: LanguageIdentifier) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<ListFormatterPreferences> for Locale

fn from(other: ListFormatterPreferences) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Locale> for CollatorPreferences

fn from(loc: Locale) -> CollatorPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Locale> for LanguageIdentifier

fn from(loc: Locale) -> LanguageIdentifier

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Locale> for ListFormatterPreferences

fn from(loc: Locale) -> ListFormatterPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Locale> for PluralRulesPreferences

fn from(loc: Locale) -> PluralRulesPreferences

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<LocalePreferences> for Locale

fn from(prefs: LocalePreferences) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Option<Region>> for Locale

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;
use icu::locale::{locale, subtags::region};

assert_eq!(Locale::from(Some(region!("US"))), locale!("und-US"));

fn from(region: Option<Region>) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<Option<Script>> for Locale

Examples

use icu::locale::Locale;
use icu::locale::{locale, subtags::script};

assert_eq!(Locale::from(Some(script!("latn"))), locale!("und-Latn"));

fn from(script: Option<Script>) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<PluralRulesPreferences> for Locale

fn from(other: PluralRulesPreferences) -> Locale

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl FromStr for Locale

type Err = ParseError

The associated error which can be returned from parsing.

fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Locale, <Locale as FromStr>::Err>

Parses a string s to return a value of this type.

impl Hash for Locale

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

where __H: Hasher,

Feeds this value into the given Hasher.

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

where H: Hasher, Self: Sized,

Feeds a slice of this type into the given Hasher.

impl PartialEq for Locale

fn eq(&self, other: &Locale) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl Writeable for Locale

fn write_to<W>(&self, sink: &mut W) -> Result<(), Error>

where W: Write + ?Sized,

Writes a string to the given sink. Errors from the sink are bubbled up. The default implementation delegates to write_to_parts, and discards any Part annotations.

fn writeable_length_hint(&self) -> LengthHint

Returns a hint for the number of UTF-8 bytes that will be written to the sink.

fn write_to_string(&self) -> Cow<'_, str>

Creates a new String with the data from this Writeable. Like ToString, but smaller and faster.

fn write_to_parts<S>(&self, sink: &mut S) -> Result<(), Error>

where S: PartsWrite + ?Sized,

Write bytes and Part annotations to the given sink. Errors from the sink are bubbled up. The default implementation delegates to write_to, and doesn’t produce any Part annotations.

impl Eq for Locale

impl StructuralPartialEq for Locale