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| author | Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> | 2015-08-07 12:59:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-08-07 12:59:25 +0200 |
| commit | 665d98c5fe12b84665afd24828e1e0c232ca816a (patch) | |
| tree | c53b30f85a1da60bac03029f7fee972676fc11bd | |
| parent | aabe0499f3c837735a80f220201400dfde8b34e5 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-665d98c5fe12b84665afd24828e1e0c232ca816a.tar.gz | |
nl_langinfo.3: Add documentation for nl_langinfo_l(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man3/nl_langinfo.3 index bd70ad02fa..b24dfca40e 100644 --- a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 +++ b/man3/nl_langinfo.3 @@ -13,22 +13,33 @@ .\" .\" Corrected prototype, 2002-10-18, aeb .\" -.TH NL_LANGINFO 3 2015-03-02 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH NL_LANGINFO 3 2015-07-31 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -nl_langinfo \- query language and locale information +nl_langinfo, nl_langinfo_l \- query language and locale information .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <langinfo.h> .sp .BI "char *nl_langinfo(nl_item " item ); +.sp +.BI "char *nl_langinfo_l(nl_item " item ", locale_t " locale ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR nl_langinfo () -function provides access to locale information +and +.BR nl_langinfo_l () +functions provide access to locale information in a more flexible way than .BR localeconv (3) does. +.BR nl_langinfo() +returns \fIitem\fP from the program's current global +locale. +.BR nl_langinfo() +returns \fIitem\fP from locale object \fIlocale\fP which was +previously created by +.BR newlocale (1). Individual and additional elements of the locale categories can be queried. .PP @@ -103,7 +114,9 @@ If no locale has been selected by .BR setlocale (3) for the appropriate category, .BR nl_langinfo () -returns a pointer to the corresponding string in the +and +.BR nl_langinfo_l () +return a pointer to the corresponding string in the "C" locale. .PP If \fIitem\fP is not valid, a pointer to an empty string is returned. |