1.\" $NetBSD: nl_langinfo.3,v 1.8 2002/04/09 20:00:05 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Written by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org>. 4.\" Public domain. 5.\" 6.Dd July 14, 1994 7.Dt NL_LANGINFO 3 8.Os 9.Sh NAME 10.Nm nl_langinfo 11.Nd get locale information 12.Sh LIBRARY 13.Lb libc 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Fd #include \*[Lt]langinfo.h\*[Gt] 16.Ft char * 17.Fn nl_langinfo "nl_item item" 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19The 20.Fn nl_langinfo 21function returns a pointer to a string containing information 22set by the program's locale. 23.Pp 24The names and values of 25.Fa item 26are defined in 27.Aq langinfo.h . 28.Sh RETURN VALUES 29.Fn nl_langinfo 30returns a pointer to an empty string if 31.Fa item 32is invalid. 33.Sh SEE ALSO 34.Xr setlocale 3 35.Sh HISTORY 36The 37.Fn nl_langinfo 38function appeared in 39.Nx 1.0 . 40