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<h2><a name="setlocale" id="setlocale">setlocale</a></h2>
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Syntax:
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<pre class="c code c++" style="font-family:monospace;"> <span class="co2">#include <clocale></span>
<span class="kw4">char</span> <span class="sy0">*</span>setlocale<span class="br0">(</span> <span class="kw4">int</span> category<span class="sy0">,</span> <span class="kw4">const</span> <span class="kw4">char</span> <span class="sy0">*</span> locale <span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span></pre>
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The setlocale function is used to set and retrieve the current locale. If
<code>locale</code> is NULL, the current locale is returned. Otherwise, <code>locale</code> is used to
set the locale for the given category.
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The argument <code>category</code> can have the following values:
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<th class="col0">Value</th><th class="col1">Description</th>
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<td class="col0">LC_ALL</td><td class="col1">All of the locale</td>
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<td class="col0">LC_TIME</td><td class="col1">Date and time formatting</td>
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<td class="col0">LC_NUMERIC</td><td class="col1">Number formatting</td>
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<td class="col0">LC_COLLATE</td><td class="col1">String collation and regular expression matching</td>
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<td class="col0">LC_CTYPE</td><td class="col1">Regular expression matching, conversion, case-sensitive comparison, wide character functions, and character classification.</td>
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<td class="col0">LC_MESSAGES</td><td class="col1">For natural language messages</td>
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