Introduce Locale enum

[cieslarmichal]

Create locale enum like in faker.js

In this issue just create a enum type that contains all values below, for USA which uses english language it would be en_US value, so _

from values:

enum class PassportCountry
{
    France,
    Poland,
    Romania,
    Usa,
};

enum class SsnCountry
{
    England,
    France,
    Germany,
    India,
    Italy,
    Poland,
    Spain,
    Usa,
};

enum class Language
{
    Albanian,
    Belarusian,
    Croatian,
    Czech,
    Danish,
    Dutch,
    English,
    Estonian,
    Finnish,
    French,
    German,
    Greek,
    Hindi,
    Hungarian,
    Irish,
    Italian,
    Japanese,
    Korean,
    Latvian,
    Macedonian,
    Mandarin,
    Nepali,
    Norwegian,
    Polish,
    Portuguese,
    Romanian,
    Russian,
    Serbian,
    Slovak,
    Slovene,
    Spanish,
    Swedish,
    Turkish,
    Ukrainian,
};

enum class Country
{
    Albania,
    Argentina,
    Australia,
    Austria,
    Azerbaijan,
    Belarus,
    Belgium,
    Bosnia,
    Brazil,
    Bulgaria,
    Canada,
    China,
    Croatia,
    Czech,
    Denmark,
    England,
    Estonia,
    Finland,
    France,
    Germany,
    Ghana,
    Greece,
    Hungary,
    Iceland,
    India,
    Iran,
    Ireland,
    Israel,
    Italy,
    Japan,
    Kazakhstan,
    Korea,
    Latvia,
    Lebanon,
    Lithuania,
    Macedonia,
    Maldives,
    Malta,
    Mexico,
    Moldova,
    Monaco,
    Nepal,
    Netherlands,
    Norway,
    Palestine,
    Poland,
    Portugal,
    Romania,
    Russia,
    Serbia,
    Slovakia,
    Slovenia,
    SouthAfrica,
    Spain,
    Sweden,
    Switzerland,
    Syria,
    Turkey,
    Ukraine,
    Usa,
    Vietnam,
};

[AbdulTade]

Hi @cieslarmichal I want to work on this issue, can you please provide more context ?

[cieslarmichal]

hello, so instead of types that are specific for language, location we would like to combine them to have standardized enum param for all methods so user can just choose use Locale::en_US instead of couple of enum values like Country::Usa, Language::English, PassportCountry::Usa - it will be simplier to use it :)

with this issue just create a new enum, dont modify existing ones

[cieslarmichal]

locales like: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glset.html

[AbdulTade]

hello, so instead of types that are specific for language, location we would like to combine them to have standardized enum param for all methods so user can just choose use Locale::en_US instead of couple of enum values like Country::Usa, Language::English, PassportCountry::Usa - it will be simplier to use it :)

with this issue just create a new enum, dont modify existing ones
.
Thank @cieslarmichal, Would proceed

[jackhwalters]

If no one is working on this I can take it up.

[cieslarmichal]

Ok. Assigned

[jackhwalters]

To be clear, do you want to end up with an enum that is the number of languages multiplied by the number of countries large? This would lead to severe code bloat and would not be easily maintainable. Why not combine PassportCountry, SsnCountry, and Country into one enum class called Country (representing duplicates once), and define and use a struct for both like so:

struct Locale {
    Language language;
    Country country;
};

[cieslarmichal]

Locale defines both country and language at once, it won't have countries x languages size because it uses country with language only when it has a meaning, couple examples:

• for polish language: has only pl_PL because only polish language in Poland
• german langauge: has many locales because there are couple of countries where there is a german language like Austria(de_AT), Germany(de_DE), Switzerland(de_CH) etc, so it doesnt define some random values like(de_EN)

Here is a reference for locales in Oracle docs: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glset.html

Hope it will make sense now.

Also locales in faker.js: https://github.com/faker-js/faker/tree/next/src/locales

[cieslarmichal]

further work to be done: #825

[jackhwalters]

Got it, in the interest of time how about we just scrape https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glset.html or https://github.com/faker-js/faker/tree/next/src/locales for locales?

[jackhwalters]

Created PR for feedback #826.