USELOCALE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual USELOCALE(3)
NAME
uselocale -- Sets a thread-local locale
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <xlocale.h>
locale_t
uselocale(locale_t locale);
DESCRIPTION
Specifies the locale for this thread to use. Specifying LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE disables the per-thread locale, while NULL returns the current
locale without setting a new one.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the previous locale, or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE if this thread has no locale associated with it.
SEE ALSO
duplocale(3), freelocale(3), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3), xlocale(3)
STANDARDS
This function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').
BSD
September 17, 2011 BSD
