locale_t(3type)

locale_t3type

Locale object

Usage

#include <locale.h>

typedef /* ... */ locale_t;

Library

Standard C library (libc)

Overview

locale_t is a type used for storing a locale object.

Notes

The following headers also provide this type: <ctype.h>, <langinfo.h>, <monetary.h>, <string.h>, <strings.h>, <time.h>, <wchar.h>, <wctype.h>.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Standards

POSIX.1-2024.

History

POSIX.1-2008.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.