freebsd man page for uselocale

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'').

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								September 17, 2011							       BSD