The general tab contains the cultural settings of the pack.
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<li> Language Id – this field is a read-only, unique and internal system regional package ID. It is also displayed in the URL as a part of the query string. 
<li> Pack Name – this field contains the English name of a regional package, or any label the administrator wants to use for the pack. 
<li> Local Name – this field contains the name of the regional package in the native language of the pack. For example, for a German regional pack, this field would be set to “Deutsch.” 
<li> Icon URL – this field contains the URL of the image, which will be used to display the regional pack designator icon (usually a country flag, associated with the pack's language). This may be a remote URL, or a local URL, in which case it should be relative to the ‘in-portal/themes/[current theme]' directory. The icon is necessary for the language selector in the default theme on the front end. 
<li> Date Format – this field contains the date format of the regional pack. The information should be entered using standard programming codes for various formats of days, months and years. For more information about the date codes, please refer to PHP's web site: <a href="http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php">http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php </a>. The example to the right of the field shows the resulting format of the current date. This example will update after you save the changes. 
<li> Time Format - this field contains the time format of the regional pack. The information should be entered using standard programming codes for various formats of seconds, minutes and hours. For more information about the time codes, please refer to PHP's web site: <a href="http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php">http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php </a>. The example to the right of the field shows the resulting format of the current time. This example will update after you save the changes. 
<li> Decimal Point – this field contains the character that will be used for separating the decimal part from the whole number. For example, in the U.S. it is a period: “10.00” and in Europe , as well as other locals, it is a comma: “10,00”. 
<li> Thousands Separator – this field contains the character that will be used for separating the thousands in numbers. 
<li> Enabled – this field is the regional pack status flag. 
<li> Primary – this flag indicates whether the pack is primary or not. If you check it while editing a non-primary pack, the pack that used to be primary will no longer be – only one primary pack can exist in a system. 
<li> Copy Labels to this Language – this is not an actual attribute of the regional pack, like the other fields on this form. It is a function that will copy all language phrases from another pack, designated in the drop down, into the current pack. It is useful for creation of new regional packs.
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