ILE C/C++ Programmer's Guide


ILE C/C++ Support for Locales

The ILE C compiler and run time environment support locales of the following types: *CLD, *LOCALE, *LOCALEUCS2, and *LOCALEUTF..

The ILE C++ compiler and run time environment support locales of the following types: *LOCALE, *LOCALEUCS2, and *LOCALEUTF.

Locales of type *LOCALE and the ILE C/C++ support for them is based on the IEEE POSIX P1003.2, ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1994[E], and X/Open Portability Guide standards for global locales and coded character set conversion.

C language onlyThe POSIX standard defines a much more comprehensive set of functions and locale data for application internationalization that is compared to that available for *CLD locales. By supporting the POSIX specification for locales in the ILE C/C++ run-time libraries, and introducing new functions which comply with the XPG4, POSIX and ISO/IEC standards, ILE C/C++ programs using locales of type *LOCALE become more portable to and from other operating systems.

Note:
CLD is available for use by ILE C only.


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