Locale

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## Locale

Sets the special locale array. Tries to use POSIX setlocale based on the value of itself, then tries to accept a custom setting with the proper definitions of `mon_decimal_point`, `thousands_sep`, and `frac_digits`, which are the the only international settings required. Default if not set is to use US-English settings.

Example of the custom setting:

        Locale     custom mon_decimal_point , mon_thousands_sep . frac_digits 0

Example of POSIX setlocale for France, if properly aliased:

        Locale     fr

See `setlocale(3)` for more information. If embedded Perl code is used to sort search returns, then the `setlocale()` will carry through to string collation.

See Internationalization.

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