Base

The base features include formatting locale-sensitive information, such as time, and managing Web content in your application.

Locale refers to the set of information that is specific to a language and a country. It affects the numeric formats (decimal and list separators), date formats, and the character sorting order. It determines how a locale-specific functionality behaves; for example, how numbers are displayed or strings converted to dates.

The main base features are:

• i18n

  Enables you to localize your application to generate flexible number or date format patterns.