Step 2. Selecting a Locale

Perform the following steps to select a locale for the International Retail site:

1. Use your browser to navigate to http://<servername>/retail2002/.

   The introductory Retail 2002 page appears.

2. On the Retail 2002 page, select a country/region and language representing your locale:

Select from one of the following supported locales: English-United States, English-Canada, French-Canada, French-France, German-Germany, and Japanese-Japan. The locale you select determines the manner in which site content is displayed.

For example, if you select the U.S. flag, the locale value is set to en-US. The Adventure Works catalog that is subsequently displayed on the site will show product items and descriptions in English, and the corresponding prices for these products are listed in U.S. dollars (USD). If you select the French flag, the locale value is set to fr-FR. Product items and descriptions are displayed in French.

Note

• The corresponding price of the product is displayed in the base currency of the site. For example, if you select the French flag but the base currency of the site is in U.S. dollars, USD will be displayed on the site. The user has the option to use the currency converter drop-down list to change the currency for the product prices.

You cannot navigate to any other page within the International Retail site until you select a locale.

Notes

• The locale selection is stored as a persisted cookie (it appears in the URL if cookies are disabled), and you will not see the locale selection page again until the cookie in which this information resides is deleted or you manually navigate back to localeselection.aspx page and make another locale selection.
• The locale selection choice you make works in conjunction with the type of catalog available to the site. The Adventure Works catalog is a multilingual catalog that supports the majority of the available International Retail Site locales.
• The locale selection you choose on the site determines which catalogs you can view. For example, if you are viewing the site in en-US (English USA) and one of the catalogs is only available in ja-JP (Japanese Japan), then you will not see that catalog listed as a choice.
• Catalog supports failover to one catalog if the locale for the user cannot be determined. For example, .NET supports a hierarchal failover that allows a French-Canadian to see French localized strings if the French-Canadian localized strings are not available. This represents two different locale failover patterns in the site.

Continue to the next step, Creating a New User Account.

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