Locale Categories

#include <locale.h>

Remarks

Locale categories are manifest constants used by the localization routines to specify which portion of a program's locale information will be used. The locale refers to the locality (or Country/Region) for which certain aspects of your program can be customized. Locale-dependent areas include, for example, the formatting of dates or the display format for monetary values.

Locale category

Parts of program affected

LC_ALL

All locale-specific behavior (all categories)

LC_COLLATE

Behavior of strcoll and strxfrm functions

LC_CTYPE

Behavior of character-handling functions (except isdigit, isxdigit, mbstowcs, and mbtowc, which are unaffected)

LC_MAX

Same as LC_TIME

LC_MIN

Same as LC_ALL

LC_MONETARY

Monetary formatting information returned by the localeconv function

LC_NUMERIC

Decimal-point character for formatted output routines (for example, printf), data conversion routines, and nonmonetary formatting information returned by localeconv function

LC_TIME

Behavior of strftime function

See Also

Concepts

localeconv

setlocale, _wsetlocale

strcoll Functions

strftime, wcsftime, _strftime_l, _wcsftime_l

strxfrm, wcsxfrm, _strxfrm_l, _wcsxfrm_l

Global Constants