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29 .Dd September 17, 2011
34 .Nd Creates a new locale
40 .Fn newlocale "int mask" "const char * locale" "locale_t base"
42 Creates a new locale, inheriting some properties from an existing locale.
45 defines the components that the new locale will have set to the locale with the
49 Any other components will be inherited from
55 indicating all possible locale components,
56 or the logical OR of some combination of the following:
57 .Bl -tag -width "LC_MESSAGES_MASK" -offset indent
59 The locale for string collation routines.
60 This controls alphabetic ordering in
70 This controls recognition of upper and lower case, alphabetic or
71 non-alphabetic characters, and so on.
73 Set a locale for message catalogs, see
77 Set a locale for formatting monetary values; this affects
82 Set a locale for formatting numbers.
83 This controls the formatting of decimal points in input and output of floating
84 point numbers in functions such as
88 as well as values returned by
91 Set a locale for formatting dates and times using the
95 This function uses the same rules for loading locale components as
100 or NULL if an error occurs.
101 You must free the returned locale with
111 This function conforms to