--- /dev/null
+package Packages::I18N::Locale;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Exporter;
+use Locale::gettext;
+
+our @ISA = qw( Exporter );
+our @EXPORT = qw( get_locale get_charset _g _ N_ );
+
+
+my %lang2loc = ( en => "en_US",
+ cs => "cs_CZ",
+ da => "da_DK",
+ ja => "ja_JP",
+ sv => "sv_SE",
+ uk => "uk_UA",
+ default => "en_US",
+ );
+
+# most of them can probably changed to UTF-8 in Sarge
+# as there are more available UTF-8 locales then
+my %lang2charset = (
+ default => 'UTF-8',
+ ja => 'EUC-JP',
+ uk => 'KOI8-U',
+ );
+
+sub get_locale {
+ my $lang = shift;
+ my $locale = $lang;
+
+ return "$lang2loc{default}.".get_charset() unless $lang;
+
+ if ( length($lang) == 2 ) {
+ $locale = $lang2loc{$lang} || ( "${lang}_" . uc $lang );
+ } elsif ( $lang !~ /^[a-z][a-z]_[A-Z][A-Z]$/ ) {
+ warn "get_locale: couldn't determine locale\n";
+ return;
+ }
+ $locale .= ".".get_charset($lang);
+ return $locale;
+}
+
+sub get_charset {
+ my $lang = shift;
+
+ return $lang2charset{default} unless $lang;
+ return $lang2charset{$lang} || $lang2charset{default};
+}
+
+sub _ { return gettext( $_[0] ) }
+sub _g { return gettext( $_[0] ) }
+sub N_ { return $_[0] }
+
+1;