LOCALE.H(3HEAD) Headers LOCALE.H(3HEAD)

locale.h, locale - category macros

#include <locale.h>

The <locale.h> header provides a definition for the lconv structure, which includes the following members. (See the definition of LC_MONETARY in locale(7).)


char         *currency_symbol
char         *decimal_point
char         frac_digits
char         *grouping
char         *int_curr_symbol
char         int_frac_digits
char         int_n_cs_precedes
char         int_n_sep_by_space
char         int_n_sign_posn
char         int_p_cs_precedes
char         int_p_sep_by_space
char         int_p_sign_posn
char         *mon_decimal_point
char         *mon_grouping
char         *mon_thousands_sep
char         *negative_sign
char         n_cs_precedes
char         n_sep_by_space
char         n_sign_posn
char         *positive_sign
char         p_cs_precedes
char         p_sep_by_space
char         p_sign_posn
char         *thousands_sep

The <locale.h> header defines NULL (as defined in <stddef.h>) and the following as macros:


LC_ALL
LC_COLLATE
LC_CTYPE
LC_MESSAGES
LC_MONETARY
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME

The preceding expand to distinct integer constant expressions, for use as the first argument to the setlocale() function. See setlocale(3C).

The <locale.h> header also defines the following macros, for use with newlocale(3C):


LC_ALL_MASK
LC_COLLATE_MASK
LC_CTYPE_MASK
LC_MESSAGES_MASK
LC_MONETARY_MASK
LC_NUMERIC_MASK
LC_TIME_MASK

In addition, to facilitate the use of per-thread locales with the uselocale(3C) function, the <locale.h> header defines the following type and macro:


locale_t

An opaque type that refers to a locale constructed through the use of the newlocale(3C) function.


LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE

A macro which expands to a locale_t that represents the current global locale as set by setlocale(3C).

Additional macro definitions, beginning with the characters LC_ and an uppercase letter, can also be specified here.

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Standard

newlocale(3C), setlocale(3C), uselocale(3C), localeconv(3C), stddef.h(3HEAD), attributes(7), locale(7), standards(7)

June 23, 2004 OmniOS