NAME

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

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.

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 0.94_1, built on May 16, 2013. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net. The code is based on POSIX, which is released with Perl itself. See also POSIX::Util for additional functionality.

COPYRIGHTS

Copyrights 2011-2013 on the perl code and the related documentation 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