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The value of this variable must be a locale object. Its initial value
is the default locale based on the Lisp process' external locale
setting (see The
initial locale when Allegro CL starts up in
iacl.htm). The locale object which is the value of
excl:*locale*
is referred to as the current
locale. *locale*
is
similar (in usage) to *package*
. It can be bound while evaluating code
for a different locale.
The current locale is used to determine the default external-format.
In addition, the value of *locale*
affects Allegro CL localization
functions, which are listed below.
Examples:
The Polish locale, "pl", uses the Latin-2 character set; and the US
English locale, "en_US", uses the Latin-1 character set. The octet
value #xa3 represents a different external-format character in each
character set. Rebinding excl:*locale*
as shown
below alters the default external-format conversion behavior.
user(22): (let ((excl:*locale* (find-locale "pl"))) (schar (octets-to-string (coerce '(#xa3) '(vector (unsigned-byte 8)))) 0)) #\latin_capital_letter_l_with_stroke user(23): (let ((excl:*locale* (find-locale "en_US"))) (schar (octets-to-string (coerce '(#xa3) '(vector (unsigned-byte 8)))) 0)) #\pound_sign
See the localization functions locale-print-monetary, locale-format-monetary, locale-print-number, locale-format-number, locale-parse-number, locale-print-time, locale-format-time, locale-attribute. And see find-locale, locale-name, and locale-external-format.
General information on international character set support in Allegro CL is in iacl.htm. See particularly External formats and locales in that document.
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Created 2010.1.21.
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