Chapter 6. LOCALE technology

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char *

nl_langinfo(

nl_item item

)

is an XPG5 function to get LOCALE related informations. You

can get the following informations using the following macros for item defined in

langinfo.h

header file:

  names for days in week (

DAY_1

(Sunday),

DAY_2

,

DAY_3

,

DAY_4

,

DAY_5

,

DAY_6

, and

DAY_7

)

  abbreviated names for days in week (

ABDAY_1

(Sun),

ABDAY_2

,

ABDAY_3

,

ABDAY_4

,

ABDAY_5

,

ABDAY_6

, and

ABDAY_7

)

  names for months in year (

MON_1

(January),

MON_2

,

MON_3

,

MON_4

,

MON_5

,

MON_6

,

MON_7

,

MON_8

,

MON_9

,

MON_10

,

MON_11

, and

MON_12

)

  abbreviated names for months in year (

ABMON_1

(January),

ABMON_2

,

ABMON_3

,

ABMON_4

,

ABMON_5

,

ABMON_6

,

ABMON_7

,

ABMON_8

,

ABMON_9

,

ABMON_10

,

ABMON_11

, and

ABMON_12

)

  name for AM (

AM_STR

)

  name for PM (

PM_STR

)

  name of era (

ERA

)

  format of date and time (

D_T_FMT

)

  format of date and time (era based) (

ERA_D_T_FMT

)

  format of date (

D_FMT

)

  format of date (era based) (

ERA_D_FMT

)

  format of time (24 hour format) (

T_FMT

)

  format of time (am/pm format) (

T_FMT_AMPM

)

  format of time (era based) (

ERA_T_FMT

)

  radix (

RADIXCHAR

)

  thousands separator (

THOUSEP

)

  alternative characters for numerics (

ALT_DIGITS

)

  affirmative word (

YESSTR

)

  affirmative response (

YESEXPR

)

  negative word (

NOSTR

)

  negative response (

NOEXPR

)