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langinfo - language information constants
#include <langinfo.h>
This header contains the constants used to identify items of langinfo
data. The mode of items is given in nl_types.
- DAY_1
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’sunday’
- DAY_2
- Locale’s equivalent of ’monday’
- DAY_3
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’tuesday’
- DAY_4
- Locale’s equivalent of ’wednesday’
- DAY_5
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’thursday’
- DAY_6
- Locale’s equivalent of ’friday’
- DAY_7
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’saturday’
- ABDAY_1
- Locale’s equivalent of ’sun’
- ABDAY_2
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’mon’
- ABDAY_3
- Locale’s equivalent of ’tue’
- ABDAY_4
- Locale’s equivalent of
’wed’
- ABDAY_5
- Locale’s equivalent of ’thur’
- ABDAY_6
- Locale’s equivalent of
’fri’
- ABDAY_7
- Locale’s equivalent of ’sat’
- MON_1
- Locale’s equivalent of ’january’
- MON_2
- Locale’s equivalent of ’february’
- MON_3
- Locale’s equivalent of ’march’
- MON_4
- Locale’s equivalent of ’april’
- MON_5
- Locale’s equivalent of ’may’
- MON_6
- Locale’s equivalent of ’june’
- MON_7
- Locale’s equivalent of ’july’
- MON_8
- Locale’s
equivalent of ’august’
- MON_9
- Locale’s equivalent of ’september’
- MON_10
- Locale’s
equivalent of ’october’
- MON_11
- Locale’s equivalent of ’november’
- MON_12
- Locale’s
equivalent of ’december’
- ABMON_1
- Locale’s equivalent of ’jan’
- ABMON_2
- Locale’s
equivalent of ’feb’
- ABMON_3
- Locale’s equivalent of ’mar’
- ABMON_4
- Locale’s equivalent
of ’apr’
- ABMON_5
- Locale’s equivalent of ’may’
- ABMON_6
- Locale’s equivalent of
’jun’
- ABMON_7
- Locale’s equivalent of ’jul’
- ABMON_8
- Locale’s equivalent of ’aug’
- ABMON_9
- Locale’s equivalent of ’sep’
- ABMON_10
- Locale’s equivalent of ’oct’
- ABMON_11
- Locale’s equivalent of ’nov’
- ABMON_12
- Locale’s equivalent of ’dec’
- RADIXCHAR
- Locale’s equivalent of ’.’
- THOUSEP
- Locale’s equivalent of ’,’
- YESSTR
- Locale’s equivalent of ’yes’
- NOSTR
- Locale’s equivalent of ’no’
- CRNCYSTR
- Locale’s
currency symbol
- D_T_FMT
- Locale’s default format for date and time
- D_FMT
- Locale’s default format for the date
- T_FMT
- Locale’s default format for
the time
- AM_STR
- Locale’s equivalent of ’AM’
- PM_STR
- Locale’s equivalent of
’PM’
This information is retrieved by nl_langinfo.
The items CRNCYSTR
,
RADIXCHAR
and THOUSEP
are extracted from the fields currency_symbol, decimal_point
and thousands_sep in the structure returned by localeconv.
The items T_FMT
,
D_FMT
, D_T_FMT
, YESSTR
and NOSTR
are retrieved from a special message
catalog named Xopen_info which should be generated for each locale supported
and installed in the appropriate directory [see gettxt(3C)
and mkmsgs(1)
]. This catalog should have the messages in the order T_FMT
, D_FMT
, D_T_FMT
,
YESSTR
and NOSTR
.
All other items are as returned by strftime.
mkmsgs(1)
,
chrtbl(1M)
, gettxt(3C)
, localeconv(3C)
, nl_langinfo(3C)
, strftime(3C)
,
nl_types(5)
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