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NEWLOCALE(3)          DragonFly Library Functions Manual          NEWLOCALE(3)


NAME

     newlocale -- Creates a new locale


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <locale.h>

     locale_t
     newlocale(int mask, const char * locale, locale_t base);


DESCRIPTION

     Creates a new locale, inheriting some properties from an existing locale.
     The mask defines the components that the new locale will have set to the
     locale with the name specified in the locale parameter.  Any other
     components will be inherited from base.  The mask is either LC_ALL_MASK,
     indicating all possible locale components, or the logical OR of some
     combination of the following:

           LC_COLLATE_MASK   The locale for string collation routines.  This
                             controls alphabetic ordering in strcoll(3) and
                             strxfrm(3).

           LC_CTYPE_MASK     The locale for the ctype(3) and multibyte(3)
                             functions.  This controls recognition of upper
                             and lower case, alphabetic or non-alphabetic
                             characters, and so on.

           LC_MESSAGES_MASK  Set a locale for message catalogs, see catopen(3)
                             function.

           LC_MONETARY_MASK  Set a locale for formatting monetary values; this
                             affects the localeconv(3) function.

           LC_NUMERIC_MASK   Set a locale for formatting numbers.  This
                             controls the formatting of decimal points in
                             input and output of floating point numbers in
                             functions such as printf(3) and scanf(3), as well
                             as values returned by localeconv(3).

           LC_TIME_MASK      Set a locale for formatting dates and times using
                             the strftime(3) function.
     This function uses the same rules for loading locale components as
     setlocale(3).


RETURN VALUES

     Returns a new, valid, locale_t or NULL if an error occurs.  You must free
     the returned locale with freelocale(3).


SEE ALSO

     duplocale(3), freelocale(3), localeconv(3), querylocale(3), uselocale(3),
     xlocale(3)


STANDARDS

     This function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').

DragonFly 5.3                 September 17, 2011                 DragonFly 5.3

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