freebsd man page for newlocale

NEWLOCALE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					      NEWLOCALE(3)

NAME
     newlocale -- Creates a new locale

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <xlocale>

     locale_t
     newlocale(int mask, const char * locale, locale_t base);

DESCRIPTION
     Creates a new locale, inheriting some properties from an existing locale.	The mask defines the components that the new locale will have set
     to the locale with the name specified in the locale parameter.  Any other components will be inherited from base.	The mask is either
     LC_ALL_MASK, indicating all possible locale components, or the logical OR of some combination of the following:

	   LC_COLLATE_MASK   The locale for string collation routines.	This controls alphabetic ordering in strcoll(3) and strxfrm(3).

	   LC_CTYPE_MASK     The locale for the ctype(3) and multibyte(3) functions.  This controls recognition of upper and lower case, alpha-
			     betic or non-alphabetic characters, and so on.

	   LC_MESSAGES_MASK  Set a locale for message catalogs, see catopen(3) function.

	   LC_MONETARY_MASK  Set a locale for formatting monetary values; this affects the localeconv(3) function.

	   LC_NUMERIC_MASK   Set a locale for formatting numbers.  This controls the formatting of decimal points in input and output of floating
			     point numbers in functions such as printf(3) and scanf(3), as well as values returned by localeconv(3).

	   LC_TIME_MASK      Set a locale for formatting dates and times using the strftime(3) function.
     This function uses the same rules for loading locale components as setlocale(3).

RETURN VALUES
     Returns a new, valid, locale_t or NULL if an error occurs.  You must free the returned locale with freelocale(3).

SEE ALSO
     duplocale(3), freelocale(3), localeconv(3), querylocale(3), uselocale(3), xlocale(3)

STANDARDS
     This function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').

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								September 17, 2011							       BSD