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localeconv: It is portable but ...Together with the setlocale function the ISO C people
invented the localeconv function. It is a masterpiece of poor
design. It is expensive to use, not extendable, and not generally
usable as it provides access to only LC_MONETARY and
LC_NUMERIC related information. Nevertheless, if it is
applicable to a given situation it should be used since it is very
portable. The function strfmon formats monetary amounts
according to the selected locale using this information.
The
localeconvfunction returns a pointer to a structure whose components contain information about how numeric and monetary values should be formatted in the current locale.You should not modify the structure or its contents. The structure might be overwritten by subsequent calls to
localeconv, or by calls tosetlocale, but no other function in the library overwrites this value.
localeconv's return value is of this data type. Its elements are described in the following subsections.
If a member of the structure struct lconv has type char,
and the value is CHAR_MAX, it means that the current locale has
no value for that parameter.