User-specific locales

Users can also define their own locales.

The CRTE library $.SYSLNK.CRTE provides two source program elements (type S) with the names USLOCC and USLOCA for this purpose. USLOCC is a C source program; USLOCA is an Assembler source program. The two source programs are equally effective at generating user-specific locales.

The source programs define the data for the individual locale categories and are preset with the data of the C locale (see section “POSIX or C locale” ). This data can be changed to the desired values.

The following changes must also be made in the source programs:

• An address table with the name USERLOC is defined in the source programs. This name must be changed to one selected by the user. The name must be a valid entry name.

• This can be done in the C source program by simply changing the name USERLOC with a #define statement. In the Assembler source program, the name USERLOC must be modified in the definition line of the table and in the ENTRY statement.

• The name modified by the user can then be used in a call to setlocale() as the locale argument to identify the user-specific locale.

The modified source programs can be compiled or assembled with the C/C++ compiler or with the Assembler (also ASSGEN). If the module is stored in a PLAM library other than
$.SYSLNK.CRTE, this library must be assigned with the following ADD-FILE-LINK
command before the C program is started:

/ADD-FILE-LINK LINK-NAME=IC@LOCAL,FILE-NAME=library