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32 .Nd Look up the locale name or version for a specified category
38 .Fn querylocale "int mask" "locale_t locale"
40 Returns the name or version of the locale for the category specified by
42 The possible values for the mask are the same as those in
44 when requesting the locale name.
45 Specify the bitwise OR of
47 and another mask value to request a version string.
48 Version strings can be compared to detect changes to the locale's definition.
49 The structure of the version string is unspecified.
50 Currently, version information is only available for
52 and an empty string is returned for other categories.
53 If more than one bit in the mask is set, not counting
55 the returned value is undefined.
66 function first appeared in
68 and is based on the function of the same name in Darwin.