Locale Categories

The locale categories are as follows:

• LC_CTYPE

  Controls the behavior of character handling functions

• LC_TIME

  Specifies date and time formats, including month names, days of the week, and common full and abbreviated representations

• LC_MONETARY

  Specifies monetary formats. Few SunOS system commands or library routines actually use this category

• LC_NUMERIC

  Specifies the decimal separator (or radix character) and the thousands separator

• LC_COLLATE

  Specifies the sorting order for a locale and the string conversions required to attain this ordering

• LC_MESSAGES

  Specifies the language in which the localized messages are written

• LO_LTYPE

  Specifies the layout engine that provides information about language rendering. Language rendering (or text rendering) consists of text shaping and directionality.