NAME

POSIX::1003::Locale - POSIX handling locale settings

INHERITANCE

POSIX::1003::Locale
  is a POSIX::1003

SYNOPSIS

use POSIX::1003::Locale;

my $location = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de'); # German
my $info     = localeconv();            # is HASH
print Dumper $info;  # use Data::Dumper to inspect

DESCRIPTION

See perllocale for the details.

Exporter

FUNCTIONS

localeconv()

Get detailed information about the current locale

my $info     = localeconv();            # is HASH
print Dumper $info;  # use Data::Dumper to inspect

setlocale()

Locales describe national and language specific facts. With setlocale() you change the locale.

my $location = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de'); # German

CONSTANTS

Constants from limits.h

MB_LEN_MAX   Max multi-byte length of a char across all locales

Constants from locale.h

LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME

SEE ALSO

This module is part of POSIX-1003 distribution version 0.07, built on December 28, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net. The code is based on POSIX, which is released with Perl itself.

COPYRIGHTS

Copyrights of the perl code and the related documentation by 2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html