Customizing Language Environment locale callable services
Locale callable services allow you to customize culturally-sensitive output for a given national language, country, and code set by specifying a locale name.
Related callable services:
- CEEFMON
- Formats monetary string
- CEEFTDS
- Formats date and time into a character string
- CEELCNV
- Query locale numeric conventions
- CEEQDTC
- Queries locale, date, and time conventions
- CEEQRYL
- Queries the active locale environment
- CEESCOL
- Compares the collation weights of two strings
- CEESETL
- Sets the locale operating environment
- CEESTXF
- Transforms string characters into collation weights
Although C or C++ routines can use the locale callable services, it is recommended that they use the equivalent native C library services instead for portability across platforms. Table 1 shows the Language Environment locale callable services and the equivalent C library routines.
| Language Environment locale callable service | C library routine |
|---|---|
| CEEFMON | strfmon() |
| CEEFTDS | strftime() |
| CEELCNV | localeconv() |
| CEEQDTC | localdtconv() |
| CEEQRYL | setlocale() |
| CEESCOL | strcoll() |
| CEESETL | setlocale() |
| CEESTXF | strxfrm() |