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

    NAME
           setlocale - set the current locale.

    SYNOPSIS
           #include <locale.h>

           char *setlocale(int category, const char * locale);

    DESCRIPTION
           The  setlocale() function is used to set or query the pro-
           gram's current locale.  If locale is "C" or  "POSIX",  the
           current locale is set to the portable locale.

           If  locale  is "", the locale is set to the default locale
           which is selected from the environment variable LANG.

           On startup of the main program, the portable "C" locale is
           selected as default.

           The  argument  category  determines  which  functions  are
           influenced by the new locale:

           LC_ALL for all of the locale.

           LC_COLLATE
                  for the functions strcoll() and strxfrm().

           LC_CTYPE
                  for the  character  classification  and  conversion
                  routines.

           LC_MONETARY
                  for localeconv().

           LC_NUMERIC
                  for the decimal character.

           LC_TIME
                  for  strftime().  NULL if the request cannot not be
                  honored.  This string may be  allocated  in  static
                  storage.

           A  program  may be made portable to all locales by calling
           setlocale(LC_ALL, "" ) after program   initialization,  by
           using  the  values  returned  from a localeconv() call for
           locale - dependent information and by using  strcoll()  or
           strxfrm() to compare strings.

    CONFORMS TO
           ANSI C, POSIX.1

           Linux  supports  the  portable locales "C" and "POSIX" and
           also the  European  Latin-1  "ISO-8859-1"  ,  and  Russian
           "KOI-8" locales.

    GNU                       April 18, 1993                        1

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

           The  printf() family of functions may or may not honor the
           current locale.

### SEE ALSO

locale, localedef, strcoll, isalpha, conv, strftime, locale,

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    GNU                       April 18, 1993                        2

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