Cultural Items

This section discusses several aspects of a locale that may differ between locales. It includes these topics:

"Collating Strings" describes string collation.
"Specifying Numbers and Money" explains some monetary formats, and the printf() and localeconv() functions.
"Formatting Dates and Times" covers using strftime() to format of dates and times.
"Character Classification and ctype" discusses associations between character codes, and using macros and functions from /usr/lib/ctype.h.
"Regular Expressions" presents information for developers who do their own regular expression parsing and matching.

Also see "Cultural Data" for additional information.