locale(7)

NAME

       locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in opera-
       tions

SYNOPSIS

           @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order
           {
               use locale;
               @x = sort @y;   # Locale-defined sorting order
           }
           @x = sort @y;       # ASCII sorting order again

DESCRIPTION

       This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX
       locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, and
       LC_COLLATE for string comparison).  Each "use locale" or "no locale"
       affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.

       See perllocale for more detailed information on how Perl supports
       locales.

perl v5.8.8                       2006-06-14                         locale(3)