GERMANY

A country-specific locale is available for German-speaking regions. This locale is identified as "GERMANY" or LC_C_GERMANY. The following values, which deviate from those of the POSIX locale, apply:

LC_CTYPE

The characters ä (X’FB’), ö (X’4F’), ü (X’FD’), and ß (X’FF’) belong to the character class lower. The characters Ä (X’BB’), Ö (X’BC’) and Ü (X’BD’) belong to the character class upper. When lowercase characters are converted to uppercase (toupper(), strupper()), the character ß (X’FF’) remains unchanged.

LC_MONETARY International currency symbol (int_curr_symbol): "DEM"

	Local currency symbol (currency_symbol): "DM" Radix character (mon_decimal_point): ","
LC_TIME	German is used for the days of the week and the months of the year. The format for the date corresponds to the usual conventions for German-speaking countries: weekday name, day of month. name of month year Example: Donnerstag, 25. Juli 1991