7 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
11 @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order
14 @x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sorting order
16 @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order again
20 This pragma tells the compiler to enable (or disable) the use of POSIX
21 locales for built-in operations (LC_CTYPE for regular expressions, and
22 LC_COLLATE for string comparison). Each "use locale" or "no locale"
23 affects statements to the end of the enclosing BLOCK.
25 See L<perllocale> for more detailed information on how Perl supports
30 $locale::hint_bits = 0x4;
33 $^H |= $locale::hint_bits;
37 $^H &= ~$locale::hint_bits;