@node setlocale
@section @code{setlocale}
@findex setlocale

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/setlocale.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On Cygwin 1.5.x, which doesn't have locales,
@code{setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL)} always returns @code{"C"}.

@item
On Cygwin 1.7.0, only the charset portion of a locale designation is honored.
@end itemize