Perl Programmers Reference Guide                        locale(3)

NAME
     locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for
     built-in operations

SYNOPSIS
         @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
         {
             use locale;
             @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
         }
         @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again

DESCRIPTION
     This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the
     use of POSIX locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for
     regular expressions, and LC_COLLATE for string comparison).
     Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the
     end of the enclosing BLOCK.

     See the perllocale manpage for more detailed information on
     how Perl supports locales.

2000-03-04          Last change: perl v5.6.0                    1