USELOCALE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual USELOCALE(3)
NAME
uselocale -- Set the per-thread locale
SYNOPSIS
#include <xlocale.h>
locale_t
uselocale(locale_t loc);
DESCRIPTION
Sets the per-thread locale to loc. Specify LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE to turn off any per-thread locale. Pass NULL to return the current value of the
per-thread locale (or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE) without changing the locale.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the previous locale, or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE if no per-thread locale was in effect.
SEE ALSO
duplocale(3), freelocale(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3), xlocale(3)
BSD
March 11, 2005 BSD
