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locale(3HEAD)

Name

locale.h, locale - category macros

Synopsis

#include <locale.h>

Description

The <locale.h> header provides a definition for the lconv structure, which includes the following members. (See the definition of LC_MONETARY in locale(5).)


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).

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

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed
Standard

See also

setlocale(3C), localeconv(3C) , stddef.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), locale(5), standards(5)