Hello, it could be more clear that nl_langinfo() interacts with setlocale(). I made a patch against 3.27 and added a short example to query the terminal character set. Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ./nl_langinfo.3.orig 2010-09-28 13:14:39.000000000 +0200 +++ ./nl_langinfo.3 2010-09-28 13:33:26.000000000 +0200 @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ .\" OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html .\" .\" Corrected prototype, 2002-10-18, aeb +.\" Modified 2010-09-28 by Michael Haardt .\" -.TH NL_LANGINFO 3 2001-05-11 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH NL_LANGINFO 3 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME nl_langinfo \- query language and locale information .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -97,7 +98,9 @@ For a more detailed list, consult .IR "The GNU C Library Reference Manual" . .SH "RETURN VALUE" -If no locale has been selected for the appropriate category, +If no locale has been selected by +.BR setlocale () +for the appropriate category, .BR nl_langinfo () returns a pointer to the corresponding string in the "C" locale. @@ -109,6 +112,23 @@ .BR nl_langinfo () or .BR setlocale (3). +.SH "EXAMPLE" +This program sets the character type locale according to the +environment and queries the terminal character set. +.LP +.nf +#include <langinfo.h> +#include <locale.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +int main(int argc, char *argv[]) +{ + setlocale(LC_CTYPE,""); + printf("%s\\n",nl_langinfo(CODESET)); + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); +} +.fi .SH "CONFORMING TO" SUSv2, POSIX.1-2001. .SH "SEE ALSO" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
