package locale;
-our $VERSION = '1.00';
+our $VERSION = '1.01';
=head1 NAME
-locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
+locale - Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order
+ @x = sort @y; # Unicode sorting order
{
use locale;
@x = sort @y; # Locale-defined sorting order
}
- @x = sort @y; # ASCII sorting order again
+ @x = sort @y; # Unicode 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"
+locales for built-in operations (for example, LC_CTYPE for regular
+expressions, LC_COLLATE for string comparison, and LC_NUMERIC for number
+formatting). 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