9. The system of claim 8, wherein said means for automatically generating the composite locale comprises: means for employing monetary, numeric, time and date display formats employed by the first default locale for the composite locale; and means for employing names for months of a year and days of a week employed by the second default locale for the composite locale.
8. A system for independently configuring international location and language in an operating system, comprising: (1) means for selecting a location and a language combination; (2) means for determining whether the selected combination is supported by an existing default locale; and (3) means for generating a composite locale for specifying output formats consistent with the selected combination, if the selected combination is not supported by a default locale, said generating means comprising (a) means for identifying a first default locale which employs formatting data for the selected location; (b) means for identifying a second default locale which employs formatting data for the selected language; and (c) means for automatically generating the composite locale for the selected combination from the first and second default locales.