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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+%{C++
+#define NSILOCALE_COLLATE "NSILOCALE_COLLATE"
+#define NSILOCALE_CTYPE  "NSILOCALE_CTYPE"
+#define NSILOCALE_MONETARY "NSILOCALE_MONETARY"
+#define NSILOCALE_NUMERIC "NSILOCALE_NUMERIC"
+#define NSILOCALE_TIME "NSILOCALE_TIME"
+#define NSILOCALE_MESSAGE "NSILOCALE_MESSAGES"
+
+#define NS_LOCALE_CONTRACTID "@mozilla.org/intl/nslocale;1"
+%}
+
+/**
+ * Represents one locale, which can be used for things like sorting text strings
+ * and formatting numbers, dates and times.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(21035ee0-4556-11d3-91cd-00105aa3f7dc)]
+interface nsILocale : nsISupports
+{
+    /**
+     * Get the locale code for a given category.
+     *
+     * A locale code is of the form language[-COUNTRY[-region]], where
+     * "language" is an ISO 639 language code (two letter codes preferred over
+     * three letter codes when available), "COUNTRY" is an ISO 3166 two letter
+     * country code, and "region" is a string of up to 5 letters.
+     *
+     * A category is one of the following:
+     * NSILOCALE_CTYPE: Character classification and case conversion.
+     * NSILOCALE_COLLATE: Collation order. How strings are sorted.
+     * NSILOCALE_MONETARY: Monetary formatting.
+     * NSILOCALE_NUMERIC: Numeric, non-monetary formatting.
+     * NSILOCALE_TIME: Date and time formats.
+     * NSILOCALE_MESSAGES: Related to fonts, character encodings etc.
+     * 
+     * @param category
+     *        The category of interest.
+     * @return The locale code to be used for the given category.
+     */
+    AString getCategory(in AString category);
+};