newlocale(3) [freebsd man page]

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

USELOCALE(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      USELOCALE(3)

NAME

       uselocale - set/get the locale for the calling thread

SYNOPSIS

       #include <locale.h>

       locale_t uselocale(locale_t newloc);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       uselocale():
	   Since glibc 2.10:
		  _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700
	   Before glibc 2.10:
		  _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

       The  uselocale() function sets the current locale for the calling thread, and returns the thread's previously current locale.  After a suc-
       cessful call to uselocale(), any calls by this thread to functions that depend on the locale will operate as though the locale has been set
       to newloc.

       The newloc argument can have one of the following values:

       A handle returned by a call to newlocale(3) or duplocale(3)
	      The calling thread's current locale is set to the specified locale.

       The special locale object handle LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
	      The calling thread's current locale is set to the global locale determined by setlocale(3).

       (locale_t) 0
	      The calling thread's current locale is left unchanged (and the current locale is returned as the function result).

RETURN VALUE

       On  success,  uselocale() returns the locale handle that was set by the previous call to uselocale() in this thread, or LC_GLOBAL_HANDLE if
       there was no such previous call.  On error, it returns (locale_t) 0, and sets errno to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS

       EINVAL newloc does not refer to a valid locale object.

VERSIONS

       The uselocale() function first appeared in version 2.3 of the GNU C library.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES

       Unlike setlocale(3), uselocale() does not allow selective replacement of individual locale categories.  To employ a locale that differs	in
       only  a few categories from the current locale, use calls to duplocale(3) and newlocale(3) to obtain a locale object equivalent to the cur-
       rent locale and modify the desired categories in that object.

EXAMPLE

       See newlocale(3) and duplocale(3).

SEE ALSO

       locale(1), duplocale(3), freelocale(3), newlocale(3), setlocale(3), locale(5), locale(7)

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