Locale Categories

A locale category is the specification of one of the elements that make up the cultural environment, or locale, in which a program runs.

IBM C and C++ Compilers supports the following locale categories:

IBM C and C++ Compilers' support of internationalization is based on the IEEE POSIX P1003.2 and X/Open Portability Guide standards for global locales and coded character set conversion, with the following exceptions:

The ANSI standard C++ Localization library supports the following standard locale categories:



Internationalization
Localization and Locales


Make your Program International
Customize a Locale


Locale Source Files
LC environment variables