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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000 |
| commit | 3af6d22bb3850ab2bac67287e3a3d3b0e32868e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ee7a3ec64525911fa865bb984c86d997d855527 /man7/locale.7 | |
| parent | Adding debian version 6.05.01-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man7/locale.7 b/man7/locale.7 index 49aa367..862a1d5 100644 --- a/man7/locale.7 +++ b/man7/locale.7 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" <jochen.hein@delphi.central.de> .\" Modified Thu Apr 25 00:43:19 2002 by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> .\" -.TH locale 7 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH locale 7 2024-02-25 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME locale \- description of multilanguage support .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ such as language for messages, different character sets, lexicographic conventions, and so on. A program needs to be able to determine its locale and act accordingly to be portable to different cultures. -.PP +.P The header .I <locale.h> declares data types, functions, and macros which are useful in this task. -.PP +.P The functions it declares are .BR setlocale (3) to set the current locale, and .BR localeconv (3) to get information about number formatting. -.PP +.P There are different categories for locale information a program might need; they are declared as macros. Using them as the first argument @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ functions also obey the environment variable .B LANGUAGE (containing a colon-separated list of locales) if the category is set to a valid locale other than -.BR """C""" . +.BR \[dq]C\[dq] . This category also affects the behavior of .BR catopen (3). .TP @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ and .TP .B LC_ALL All of the above. -.PP +.P If the second argument to .BR setlocale (3) is an empty string, @@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ If there is a non-null environment variable the value of .B LANG is used. -.PP +.P Values about local numeric formatting is made available in a .I struct lconv returned by the .BR localeconv (3) function, which has the following declaration: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct lconv { @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ based on implementations that first appeared in glibc 2.3. These extensions are designed to address the problem that the traditional locale APIs do not mix well with multithreaded applications and with applications that must deal with multiple locales. -.PP +.P The extensions take the form of new functions for creating and manipulating locale objects .RB ( newlocale (3), |