Add utility function to determine if a locale is valid syntax; this will...

app/l10n_util.h

Index: app/l10n_util.h
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--- app/l10n_util.h	(revision 68844)
+++ app/l10n_util.h	(working copy)
@@ -56,6 +56,23 @@
                                  const std::string& display_locale,
                                  bool is_for_ui);
 
+// Converts all - into _, to be consistent with ICU and file system names.
+std::string NormalizeLocale(const std::string& locale);
+
+// Produce a vector of parent locales for given locale.
+// It includes the current locale in the result.
+// sr_Cyrl_RS generates sr_Cyrl_RS, sr_Cyrl and sr.
+void GetParentLocales(const std::string& current_locale,
+                      std::vector<std::string>* parent_locales);
+
+// Checks if a string is plausibly a syntactically-valid locale string,
+// for cases where we want the valid input to be a locale string such as
+// 'en', 'pt-BR', 'fil', and 'zh-Hans-CN', but we don't want to limit it

[jungshik at Google, 2010/12/10 22:21:28]

examples like 'es-419' and 'de_DE@collation=phonebook' can be mentioned here. 

+// to locales that Chrome actually knows about, so 'xx-YY' should be
+// accepted, but 'z', 'German', 'en-$1', or 'abcd-1234' should not.
+// Case-insensitive. Based on BCP 47.
+bool IsValidLocaleSyntax(const std::string& locale);
+
 //
 // Mac Note: See l10n_util_mac.h for some NSString versions and other support.
 //