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Territories
By default, all Toolbox applications use the territory manager which is a RISC OS module providing control over the localised aspects of the computer amongst which are:
- a keyboard handler for the territory's keyboard layout
- the correct alphabet for the territory
- information on the use of that alphabet, including the direction of writing to use
- the properties of each character, and variant forms of each character (such as upper/lower case, control characters, and accented characters)
- a sort order for strings using the territory's alphabet
- the characters that are used for numbers, and how those numbers are formatted, both as numeric and monetary quantities
- the time zones and the formats of time and date used in the territory; together with facilities for reading and setting the local time using these formats information on the calendar used in the territory.
Happily, programmers need not concern themselves with such issues which are automatically taken care of by the territory module. This provides the services and information necessary for both RISC OS 3 and its applications to be easily adapted for use in different territories (ie regions of the world).
Note that a territory might, but need not, correspond to a whole country. Rather, a territory is a region for which a single territory module correctly provides all the services and information. For example, to properly support the whole of Switzerland you would need a separate territory for each of the languages used.
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