locale-attribute

Arguments: locale attribute &key category

The attribute and category arguments to locale-attribute are string designators. The lookup is first done using a case-sensitive search. If the attribute cannot be found, then the search is retried using a case-insensitive search.

A call to (locale-attribute x-locale x-attr) returns the value for x-attr in locale x-locale. Since attribute names are unique among all categories, it is not necessary to supply the category, but the :category keyword argument limits the attribute search to the specified category. This may help speed up the attribute's search. If the attribute can not be found, then locale-attribute returns the keyword :unspecified. It is an error to specify a category for which the attribute is not defined.

Note that locale-attribute is a general attribute accessor. Many attributes have their own specific accessors (which have more Lisp-like names). Thus:

(locale-attribute locale "int_curr_symbol" :category "LC_MONETARY")
 == (locale-int-curr-symbol locale) 

See Localization support in Allegro CL in iacl.htm.

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