Managing System Locales

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The locale setting of an application determines how the application behaves in different locales. The locale setting is the single most important setting when dealing with internationalized applications. From a user's perspective, the locale affects many aspects of application's behavior, and from the programmer's perspective, it affects the behavior of many interfaces that the system provides. Properly written internationalized applications need to correctly set the locale.

For more information about locales and how they affect a program's behavior, see International Language Environments Guide for Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

Caution - All the internationalized interfaces are MT-Safe with exceptions as mentioned in the setlocale(3C) man page. For more information about interface classification, see MT Interface Safety Levels in Multithreaded Programming Guide .