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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2001-02-06 04:20:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2001-02-06 04:20:37 +0000 |
| commit | 403cb8a19cb457b7f830520a06b0da5a2b846812 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e1991305bb711f5d31bc4fc50e417a30d71c3c2 /manual/locale.texi | |
| parent | 5a35dfca75ee7f2e3b650f2d80a3f1b4802e21e1 (diff) | |
Update.
* localedata/Makefile (tests): Add bug-iconv-trans.
Define bug-iconv-trans-ENV.
* localedata/bug-iconv-trans.c: New file.
2001-02-04 Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
* iconv/gconv_trans.c (__gconv_transliterate): Use a temporary output
pointer, to avoid accumulating output from incomplete (unsuccessful)
transliteration attempts.
2001-02-05 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/locale.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/locale.texi | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/manual/locale.texi b/manual/locale.texi index aecfa35370..e540009d30 100644 --- a/manual/locale.texi +++ b/manual/locale.texi @@ -221,8 +221,13 @@ The symbols in this section are defined in the header file @file{locale.h}. @comment locale.h @comment ISO @deftypefun {char *} setlocale (int @var{category}, const char *@var{locale}) -The function @code{setlocale} sets the current locale for -category @var{category} to @var{locale}. +The function @code{setlocale} sets the current locale for category +@var{category} to @var{locale}. A list of all the locales the system +provides can be created by running + +@smallexample + locale -a +@end smallexample If @var{category} is @code{LC_ALL}, this specifies the locale for all purposes. The other possible values of @var{category} specify an @@ -239,9 +244,11 @@ Concatenation}) if you want to save it past any further calls to @code{setlocale}. (The standard library is guaranteed never to call @code{setlocale} itself.) -You should not modify the string returned by @code{setlocale}. -It might be the same string that was passed as an argument in a -previous call to @code{setlocale}. +You should not modify the string returned by @code{setlocale}. It might +be the same string that was passed as an argument in a previous call to +@code{setlocale}. One requirement is that the @var{category} must be +the same in the call the string was returned and the one when the string +is passed in as @var{locale} parameter. When you read the current locale for category @code{LC_ALL}, the value encodes the entire combination of selected locales for all categories. |