Hello Michael. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Michael Haardt <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks. Applied for man-pages-3.28. Cheers, Michael > 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" > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
