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PHP setlocale() Function

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Definition and Usage
The setlocale() function sets locale information.

Locale information is language, monetary, time and other information specific for a geographical area.

This function returns the current locale settings, or FALSE on failure.

Syntax
setlocale(constant,location)  

Parameter Description
constant Required. Specifies what locale information should be set.
Available constants:

LC_ALL - All of the below
LC_COLLATE -  Sort order
LC_CTYPE - Character classification and conversion (e.g. all characters should be lower or upper-case)
LC_MESSAGES - System message formatting
LC_MONETARY - Monetary/currency formatting
LC_NUMERIC - Numeric formatting
LC_TIME - Date and time formatting
 
location Required. Specifies what country/region to set the locale information to. Can be a string or an array. If the location is an array, setlocale() will try each array element until it finds a valid language or region code. This is very useful if a region is known under different names on different systems.
Note: Here you can find language and region codes.
 


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Tips and Notes
Note: The setlocale() function changes the locale only for the current script.

Tip: The locale information can be set to system default with setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL)


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Example
In this example we will set the locale to US English and then back to default again:

echo setlocale(LC_ALL,"En-Us");
echo "
";
echo setlocale(LC_ALL,NULL);
?>  

The output of the code above will be:

English_United States.1252
Norwegian (BokmÃ¥l)_Norway.1252