A locale refers to a set of user preferences that tend to be shared across significant swaths
of the world. Traditionally, the data associated with it provides support for formatting and
parsing of dates, times, numbers, and currencies; for measurement units, for
sort-order (collation), plus translated names for time zones, languages, countries, and
scripts. The data can also include support for text boundaries (character, word, line,
and sentence), text transformations (including transliterations), and other services.