1locale(3pm)            Perl Programmers Reference Guide            locale(3pm)
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NAME

6       locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in opera‐
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SYNOPSIS

10           @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
11           {
12               use locale;
13               @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
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15           @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again
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DESCRIPTION

18       This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX
19       locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, and
20       LC_COLLATE for string comparison).  Each "use locale" or "no locale"
21       affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.
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23       See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports
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