USELOCALE(3)           FreeBSD Library Functions Manual           USELOCALE(3)

NAME
     uselocale - Sets a thread-local locale

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <locale.h>

     locale_t
     uselocale(locale_t locale);

DESCRIPTION
     Specifies the locale for this thread to use.  Specifying LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
     disables the per-thread locale, while NULL returns the current locale
     without setting a new one.

RETURN VALUES
     Returns the previous locale, or LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE if this thread has no
     locale associated with it.

SEE ALSO
     duplocale(3), freelocale(3), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3),
     xlocale(3)

STANDARDS
     This function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 ("POSIX.1").

FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6       September 17, 2011       FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6