NAME¶
locale - Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
SYNOPSIS¶
@x = sort @y; # Native-platform/Unicode code point sort order
{
use locale;
@x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sort order
}
@x = sort @y; # Native-platform/Unicode code point sort order
# again
DESCRIPTION¶
This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX locales
for built-in operations (for example, LC_CTYPE for regular expressions,
LC_COLLATE for string comparison, and LC_NUMERIC for number formatting). Each
"use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the end
of the enclosing BLOCK.
See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports locales.
On systems that don't have locales, this pragma will cause your operations to
behave as if in the "C" locale; attempts to change the locale will
fail.