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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-08-07 13:22:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-08-07 13:22:17 +0200 |
| commit | 29f6f82cb37b910bc73ea870f5cba0aaff0394a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 23ad8b2ba34e4146707f37effac408324bfd9eee | |
| parent | 1f741719e4750b739711daac2fd45af310b41806 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-29f6f82cb37b910bc73ea870f5cba0aaff0394a3.tar.gz | |
nl_langinfo.3: Clarify details of nl_langinfo_l() return value
setlocale() does not come into play for nl_langinfo_l(),
as far as I can tell.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man3/nl_langinfo.3 index ce9aa397a6..96b6807ed5 100644 --- a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 +++ b/man3/nl_langinfo.3 @@ -115,10 +115,14 @@ If no locale has been selected by .BR setlocale (3) for the appropriate category, .BR nl_langinfo () -and +return a pointer to the corresponding string in the "C" locale. +The same is true of .BR nl_langinfo_l () -return a pointer to the corresponding string in the -"C" locale. +if +.I locale +specifies a locale where +.I langinfo +data is not defined. .PP If \fIitem\fP is not valid, a pointer to an empty string is returned. .PP |