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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Q: Locale - is it possible to change on the fly?
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:00:40 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199703111221.OAA21499@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua> from "Adrian Pavlykevych" at Mar 11, 97 02:25:23 pm
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> I have nonstandard question: is it possible to change locale settings 
> inside proces on the fly?

Yes.  setlocale( ..., new_locale);

> I need to sort some data according to one 
> collation order and some according to other. Will strcoll and other 
> locale-enabled functions be changing their behavior, if I'll be changing
> locale before their invocations ?

Yes.

Be forewarned: locale is a mechansim for localizing software to a
single locale, not for localizing software to multiple locales
simultaneously.

Like Unicode, it is a tool for localization, not multinationalization;
tools for multinationalization don't really exist, per se, since their
application is limited to language researchers and translators.  The
best you can hope for is picking a single round-trip character set
that supports both your languages.  You will never find one of these
for, for example, Chinese and Japanese.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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