NAME
newlocale
—
Creates a new locale
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<locale.h>
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 eitherLC_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, alphabetic 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.
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”).