Table 6 shows the ISO8859-1 (Latin-1 alphabet) locale categories.
Table 6. Default ISO8859-1 locales
| Symbol | Description |
|---|---|
__use_iso8859_ctype | Selects the ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) classification of characters. This is essentially 7-bit ASCII, except that the character codes 160-255 represent a selection of useful European punctuation characters, letters, and accented letters. |
__use_iso8859_collate | Selects the strcoll/strxfrm collation
table appropriate to the Latin-1 alphabet. The default C locale
does not require a collation table. |
__use_iso8859_monetary | Selects the Sterling monetary category using Latin-1 coding. |
__use_iso8859_numeric | Selects separation of thousands with commas in the printing of numeric values. |
__use_iso8859_locale | Selects all the ISO8859-1 selections described in this table. |
There is no ISO8859-1 version of the LC_TIME category.
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