NAME
uselocale —
Sets a thread-local locale
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<locale.h>
locale_t
uselocale(locale_t
locale);
DESCRIPTION
Specifies the locale for this thread to use. SpecifyingLC_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”).