/* Determine name of the currently selected locale.
- Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2007, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
- by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Library General Public License for more details.
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
- USA. */
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef _GL_LOCALENAME_H
#define _GL_LOCALENAME_H
/* Determine the current locale's name.
- It considers both the POSIX notion of locale name (see function
- gl_locale_name_posix) and the system notion of locale name (see function
- gl_locale_name_default).
+ It considers both the POSIX notion of locale name (see functions
+ gl_locale_name_thread and gl_locale_name_posix) and the system notion
+ of locale name (see function gl_locale_name_default).
CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
extern const char * gl_locale_name (int category, const char *categoryname);
-/* Determine the current locale's name, as specified by setlocale() calls
- or by environment variables.
+/* Determine the current per-thread locale's name, as specified by uselocale()
+ calls.
+ CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
+ but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
+ CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
+ Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
+ language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
+ or NULL if no locale has been specified for the current thread.
+ The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
+ should be used for codeset information instead.
+ The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
+extern const char * gl_locale_name_thread (int category, const char *categoryname);
+
+/* Determine the thread-independent current locale's name, as specified by
+ setlocale() calls or by environment variables.
CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
extern const char * gl_locale_name_posix (int category, const char *categoryname);
+/* Determine the default locale's name, as specified by environment
+ variables.
+ Return the locale category's name, or NULL if no locale has been specified
+ by environment variables.
+ The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated. */
+extern const char * gl_locale_name_environ (int category, const char *categoryname);
+
/* Determine the default locale's name. This is the current locale's name,
- if not specified by setlocale() calls or by environment variables. This
- locale name is usually determined by systems settings that the user can
- manipulate through a GUI.
+ if not specified by uselocale() calls, by setlocale() calls, or by
+ environment variables. This locale name is usually determined by systems
+ settings that the user can manipulate through a GUI.
Quoting POSIX:2001:
"All implementations shall define a locale as the default locale,