freebsd-dev/contrib/perl5/lib/locale.pm
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Perl

package locale;
=head1 NAME
locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order
{
use locale;
@x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sorting order
}
@x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order again
=head1 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 L<perllocale> for more detailed information on how Perl supports
locales.
=cut
$locale::hint_bits = 0x800;
sub import {
$^H |= $locale::hint_bits;
}
sub unimport {
$^H &= ~$locale::hint_bits;
}
1;