locale

locale

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION

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