1 /* Determine name of the currently selected locale.
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19 #ifndef _GL_LOCALENAME_H
20 #define _GL_LOCALENAME_H
27 /* Determine the current locale's name.
28 It considers both the POSIX notion of locale name (see functions
29 gl_locale_name_thread and gl_locale_name_posix) and the system notion
30 of locale name (see function gl_locale_name_default).
31 CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
32 but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
33 CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
34 Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
35 language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
36 The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
37 should be used for codeset information instead.
38 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
39 extern const char * gl_locale_name (int category, const char *categoryname);
41 /* Determine the current per-thread locale's name, as specified by uselocale()
43 CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
44 but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
45 CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
46 Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
47 language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
48 or NULL if no locale has been specified for the current thread.
49 The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
50 should be used for codeset information instead.
51 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
52 extern const char * gl_locale_name_thread (int category, const char *categoryname);
54 /* Determine the thread-independent current locale's name, as specified by
55 setlocale() calls or by environment variables.
56 CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
57 but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
58 CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
59 Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
60 language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
61 or NULL if no locale has been specified to setlocale() or by environment
63 The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
64 should be used for codeset information instead.
65 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
66 extern const char * gl_locale_name_posix (int category, const char *categoryname);
68 /* Determine the default locale's name, as specified by environment
70 Return the locale category's name, or NULL if no locale has been specified
71 by environment variables.
72 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
73 extern const char * gl_locale_name_environ (int category, const char *categoryname);
75 /* Determine the default locale's name. This is the current locale's name,
76 if not specified by uselocale() calls, by setlocale() calls, or by
77 environment variables. This locale name is usually determined by systems
78 settings that the user can manipulate through a GUI.
81 "All implementations shall define a locale as the default locale,
82 to be invoked when no environment variables are set, or set to the
83 empty string. This default locale can be the C locale or any other
84 implementation-defined locale. Some implementations may provide
85 facilities for local installation administrators to set the default
86 locale, customizing it for each location. IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does
87 not require such a facility."
89 The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
90 extern const char * gl_locale_name_default (void);
97 #endif /* _GL_LOCALENAME_H */