Intl — locales argument
The locales argument is used to determine the locale used in a given operation.
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The locales argument is used to determine the locale used in a given operation. The JavaScript implementation examines locales, and then computes a locale it understands that comes closest to satisfying the expressed preference. locales may be
undefined (or omitted): The implementation's default locale will be used. A locale: A locale identifier or an Intl.Locale object that wraps a locale identifier. A list of locales: Any other value, that will be converted into an object and then treated as an array of locales.
In the latter two cases, the actual locale used is the best-supported locale determined by locale negotiation. If a locale identifier is not a string or an object, a {{jsxref("TypeError")}} is thrown. If a locale identifier is a string that's syntactically invalid, a {{jsxref("RangeError")}} is thrown. If a locale identifier is well-formed but the implementation doesn't recog
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