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locale(3perl)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					     locale(3perl)

NAME

       locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations

SYNOPSIS

	   @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
	   {
	       use locale;
	       @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
	   }
	   @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again

DESCRIPTION

       This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions,
       and LC_COLLATE for string comparison).  Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.

       See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports locales.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-12-30							     locale(3perl)

locale(3pm)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					       locale(3pm)

NAME

       locale - Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations

SYNOPSIS

	   @x = sort @y;       # Unicode sorting order
	   {
	       use locale;
	       @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
	   }
	   @x = sort @y;       # Unicode sorting order again

DESCRIPTION

       This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations (for example, LC_CTYPE for regular
       expressions, LC_COLLATE for string comparison, and LC_NUMERIC for number formatting).  Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements
       to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.

       Starting in Perl 5.16, a hybrid mode for this pragma is available,

	   use locale ':not_characters';

       which enables only the portions of locales that don't affect the character set (that is, all except LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE).  This is
       useful when mixing Unicode and locales, including UTF-8 locales.

	   use locale ':not_characters';
	   use open ":locale";		 # Convert I/O to/from Unicode
	   use POSIX qw(locale_h);	 # Import the LC_ALL constant
	   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");	 # Required for the next statement
					 # to take effect
	   printf "%.2f
", 12345.67'	 # Locale-defined formatting
	   @x = sort @y;		 # Unicode-defined sorting order.
					 # (Note that you will get better
					 # results using Unicode::Collate.)

       See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports locales.

NOTE

       If your system does not support locales, then loading this module will cause the program to die with a message:

	   "Your vendor does not support locales, you cannot use the locale
	   module."

perl v5.18.2							    2013-11-04							       locale(3pm)