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

METHODS

POSIX::1003::Locale->exampleValue(NAME)

See "METHODS" in POSIX::1003

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 0.11, built on January 04, 2012. 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 2011-2012 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