In 1637, after heavy lobbying from the London Gunmakers Company, a London-area firearms guild, King Charles I issued a Royal Charter setting firearms safety standards.
The first proof marks started appearing in 15th century France, and by the 17th century, European firearms guildsmen were heavily promoting their use - and lobbying their governments for laws requiring them - primarily to dissuade competition from non-guildsmen and scare potential purchasers away from un-proofed guns. But like many government regulations, their origins have more to do with self-interest than safety. In modern years, they truly do serve that purpose. Proof marks are stamps embedded in certain parts of a firearm following (and sometimes during, depending on the firearm type) its manufacturing to indicate that the firearm has been “proven” to be able to handle the specific type of ammunition for which it was designed. And even if you’re already familiar with proof marks, maybe this article can broaden your knowledge and teach you something new. Also, this list both contains a main entry per language as well as all the region specific variants - this way you always have a designated fallback option, say if your interface has only defined the 'en' option - you wouldn't otherwise know on what to fall back on reliably.If you’ve heard someone mention proof marks or date codes when discussing a SIG Sauer pistol, but weren’t quite sure what those were, then the goal of this article is to bring you up to speed. I've taken this list of iOS locales, removed the strange POSIX entry, formatted it as Javascript and sorted it by value (so if you use an ordered object implementation and create a list by going through the keys and returning the value, it will show the human readable text in correct order).
What's a main-land Chinese citizen who wants traditional han supposed to use - the Hong Kong setting? For example, the Chinese locales don't distinguish between the different scriptures (simplified han, traditional han). The accepted answer misses some rather significant locales. Other differences are significant to the extent that you want and able to cater to specific variations. The most important thing for various versions of English is in formatting numbers and dates.
My Windows 7 system has 211 locales installed (listed below), so you wouldn't likely write any custom code or translation specific to this many locales.Įdit: The original list of locales has been edited to add additional locales that were not included before. The importance of locales is that your environment/os can provide formatting functionality for all installed locales even if you don't know about them when you write your application.
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