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USELOCALE(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual USELOCALE(3)
NAME
uselocale - Sets a thread-local locale
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <locale.h>
locale_t
uselocale(locale_t locale);
DESCRIPTION
Specifies the locale for this thread to use. Specifying LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
disables the per-thread locale, while NULL returns the current locale
without setting a new one.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the previous locale, or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE if this thread has no
locale associated with it.
SEE ALSO
duplocale(3), freelocale(3), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3),
xlocale(3)
STANDARDS
This function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 ("POSIX.1").
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 September 17, 2011 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6