locale
locale
NAME
locale - Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
SYNOPSIS
@x = sort @y; # Native-platform/Unicode code point sort order { use locale; @x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sort order } @x = sort @y; # Native-platform/Unicode code point sort order # again
DESCRIPTION
This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations (for example, LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, LC_COLLATE for string comparison, and LC_NUMERIC for number formatting). Each "use locale" or "no locale" affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.
See perllocale for more detailed