Locale Definitions

The locales subdirectory in the library distribution contains a number of files, listed below, each of which defines a European or American locale. To use them with the Dinkum C Library, concatenate as many as you like into a single file, then set the environment variable LOCFILE to that filename. Say, for example, that you choose to make all locales available on a Linux system, and you wish to store them in the file /opt/sxl/lib/locales.txt. In this directory, execute the commands:

$ cat POSIX *_* > /opt/sxl/lib/locales.txt
$ LOCFILE=/opt/sxl/lib/locales.txt
$ export LOCFILE

You can then write C code such as:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <time.h>

int main()
    {   /* switch to Austrian locale and print date information */
    const char *lname = setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_AT");
    time_t now = time(0);
    struct tm *pt = localtime(&now);
    char buffer[128];

    printf("returned %s\n", lname == 0 ? "NIL" : lname);
    strftime(buffer, sizeof (buffer), "%a %A %b %B", pt);
    printf("%s\n", buffer);
    return 0;
    }

When executed on a Wednesday during the month of June, it produces the output:

returned de_AT
Mit Mittwoch Jun Juni

The Standard C++ Library, when used with the Dinkum Standard C Library, can also make use of these locales. It uses the same locale names as the C function setlocale.

Note that these locales address only single-byte character sets, typically variants of ISO-8859. In their current form, the files supplied here make no attempt to alter the wide-character behavior of the Standard C Library, even where it might make sense to do so.

Listed below are all the supplied locales. NAME represents both the file name and the locale name used in a call to setlocale. CHARMAP represents the file name of the character map used to interpret the Posix locale specification. And LOCALE is a brief description of the language/culture combination supported by the locale.

NAME  CHARMAP        LOCALE

POSIX ISO-8859-1    Posix locale
cs_CZ ISO-8859-2    Czech language locale for Czech Republic
da_DK ISO-8859-1    Danish language locale for Denmark
da_EU ISO-8859-15   Danish language locale for Europe
de_AT ISO-8859-1    German language locale for Austria
de_BE ISO-8859-1    German language locale for Belgium
de_CH ISO-8859-1    German language locale for Switzerland
de_DE ISO-8859-1    German language locale for Germany
de_EU ISO-8859-15   German language locale for Europe
de_LU ISO-8859-1    German language locale for Luxemburg
el_EU ISO-8859-7x   Greek language locale for Europe (Euro symbol added)
el_GR ISO-8859-7    Greek language locale for Greece
en_AU ISO-8859-1    English language locale for Australia
en_CA ISO-8859-1    English language locale for Canada
en_DK ISO_8859-1    English language locale for Denmark
en_EU ISO-8859-15   English language locale for Europe
en_GB ISO-8859-1    English language locale for United Kingdom
en_IE ISO-8859-1    English language locale for Ireland
en_NZ ISO-8859-1    English language locale for New Zealand
en_US ISO-8859-1    English language locale for USA
es_AR ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Argentina
es_BO ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Bolivia
es_CL ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Chile
es_CO ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Colombia
es_DO ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Dominican Republic
es_EC ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Equador
es_ES ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Spain
es_EU ISO-8859-15   Spanish language locale for Europe
es_GT ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Guatemala
es_HN ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Honduras
es_MX ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Mexico
es_PA ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Panama
es_PE ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Peru
es_PY ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Paraguay
es_SV ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Salvador
es_US ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for USA
es_UY ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Uruguay
es_VE ISO-8859-1    Spanish language locale for Venezuela
et_EE ISO-8859-1    Estonian language for Estonia
eu_ES ISO-8859-1    Basque language locale for Spain
fi_EU ISO-8859-15   Finnish language locale for Europe
fi_FI ISO-8859-1    Finnish language locale for Finland
fo_FO ISO-8859-1    Faroese language locale for Faroe Islands
fr_BE ISO-8859-1    French language locale for Belgium
fr_CA ISO-8859-1    French language locale for Canada
fr_CH ISO-8859-1    French language locale for Switzerland
fr_EU ISO-8859-15   French language locale for Europe
fr_FR ISO-8859-1    French language locale for France
fr_LU ISO-8859-1    French language locale for Luxemburg
ga_EU ISO-8859-15   Irish language locale for Europe
ga_IE ISO-8859-1    Irish language locale for Ireland
gl_ES ISO-8859-1    Galician language locale for Spain
hr_HR ISO-8859-2    Croatian language locale for Croatia
hu_HU ISO-8859-2    Hungarian language locale for Hungary
id_ID ISO-8859-1    Indonesian language locale for Indonesia
is_EU ISO-8859-15   Icelandic language locale for Europe
is_IS ISO-8859-1    Icelandic language locale for Iceland
it_EU ISO-8859-15   Italian language locale for Europe
it_IT ISO-8859-1    Italian language locale for Italy
iw_IL ISO-8859-8    Hebrew language locale for Israel
kl_GL ISO-8859-1    Greenlandic language locale for Greenland
lt_LT   BALTIC      Lithuanian language locale for Lithuania
lv_LV   BALTIC      Latvian language locale for Latvia
nl_BE ISO-8859-1    Dutch language locale for Belgium
nl_EU ISO-8859-15   Dutch language locale for Europe
nl_NL ISO-8859-9    Dutch language locale for Netherlands
no_EU ISO-8859-15   Norwegian language locale for Europe
no_NO ISO-8859-1    Norwegian language locale for Norway
pl_PL ISO-8859-2    Polish language locale for Poland
pt_BR ISO-8859-1    Portugese language locale for Brazil
pt_EU ISO-8859-15   Portugese language locale for Europe
pt_PT ISO-8859-1    Portugese language locale for Portugal
ro_RO ISO-8859-2    Romanian language locale for Romania
ru_RU ISO-8859-5    Russian language locale for Russia
sl_SI ISO-8859-2    Slovenian language locale for Slovenia
sv_EU ISO-8859-15   Swedish language locale for Europe
sv_FI ISO-8859-1    Swedish language locale for Finland
sv_SE ISO-8859-1    Swedish language locale for Sweden
tr_TR ISO-8859-9    Turkish language locale for Turkey

See also the Table of Contents and the Index.