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30 .Dd September 17, 2011
35 .Nd Sets a thread-local locale
41 .Fn uselocale "locale_t locale"
43 Specifies the locale for this thread to use.
46 disables the per-thread locale,
47 while NULL returns the current locale without setting a new one.
49 Returns the previous locale,
50 or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE if this thread has no locale associated with it.
59 This function conforms to