diff options
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/setlocale.3 | 37 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 index d2b511e..50a36d8 100644 --- a/man3/setlocale.3 +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ .\" Modified Tue Aug 24 17:11:01 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Modified Tue Feb 6 03:31:55 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" -.TH setlocale 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH setlocale 3 2024-02-25 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME setlocale \- set the current locale .SH LIBRARY @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <locale.h> -.PP +.P .BI "char *setlocale(int " category ", const char *" locale ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR setlocale () function is used to set or query the program's current locale. -.PP +.P If .I locale is not NULL, @@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ LC_TIME T{ Formatting of date and time values T} .TE -.PP +.P The categories marked with an asterisk in the above table are GNU extensions. For further information on these locale categories, see .BR locale (7). -.PP +.P The argument .I locale is a pointer to a character string containing the @@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ required setting of Such a string is either a well-known constant like "C" or "da_DK" (see below), or an opaque string that was returned by another call of .BR setlocale (). -.PP +.P If .I locale is an empty string, -.BR """""" , +.BR \[dq]\[dq] , each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the environment variables. The details are implementation-dependent. @@ -110,21 +110,21 @@ If its value is not a valid locale specification, the locale is unchanged, and .BR setlocale () returns NULL. -.PP +.P The locale -.B """C""" +.B \[dq]C\[dq] or -.B """POSIX""" +.B \[dq]POSIX\[dq] is a portable locale; it exists on all conforming systems. -.PP +.P A locale name is typically of the form .IR language "[_" territory "][." codeset "][@" modifier "]," where .I language -is an ISO 639 language code, +is an ISO\~639 language code, .I territory -is an ISO 3166 country code, and +is an ISO\~3166 country code, and .I codeset is a character set or encoding identifier like .B "ISO\-8859\-1" @@ -132,22 +132,22 @@ or .BR "UTF\-8" . For a list of all supported locales, try "locale \-a" (see .BR locale (1)). -.PP +.P If .I locale is NULL, the current locale is only queried, not modified. -.PP +.P On startup of the main program, the portable -.B """C""" +.B \[dq]C\[dq] locale is selected as default. A program may be made portable to all locales by calling: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); .EE .in -.PP +.P after program initialization, and then: .IP \[bu] 3 using the values returned from a @@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ T{ .BR setlocale () T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe const:locale env .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SS Categories |