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+/* Determine name of the currently selected locale.
+   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+   under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
+   by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Library General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+   License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+   USA.  */
+
+#ifndef _GL_LOCALENAME_H
+#define _GL_LOCALENAME_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+
+/* Determine the current locale's name.
+   It considers both the POSIX notion of locale name (see function
+   gl_locale_name_posix) and the system notion of locale name (see function
+   gl_locale_name_default).
+   CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
+   but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
+   CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
+   Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
+     language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
+   The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
+   should be used for codeset information instead.
+   The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated.  */
+extern const char * gl_locale_name (int category, const char *categoryname);
+
+/* Determine the current locale's name, as specified by setlocale() calls
+   or by environment variables.
+   CATEGORY is a locale category abbreviation, as defined in <locale.h>,
+   but not LC_ALL. E.g. LC_MESSAGES.
+   CATEGORYNAME is the name of CATEGORY as a string, e.g. "LC_MESSAGES".
+   Return the locale category's name, canonicalized into XPG syntax
+     language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
+   or NULL if no locale has been specified to setlocale() or by environment
+   variables.
+   The codeset part in the result is not reliable; the locale_charset()
+   should be used for codeset information instead.
+   The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated.  */
+extern const char * gl_locale_name_posix (int category, const char *categoryname);
+
+/* Determine the default locale's name.  This is the current locale's name,
+   if not specified by setlocale() calls or by environment variables.  This
+   locale name is usually determined by systems settings that the user can
+   manipulate through a GUI.
+
+   Quoting POSIX:2001:
+     "All implementations shall define a locale as the default locale,
+      to be invoked when no environment variables are set, or set to the
+      empty string.  This default locale can be the C locale or any other
+      implementation-defined locale.  Some implementations may provide
+      facilities for local installation administrators to set the default
+      locale, customizing it for each location.  IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does
+      not require such a facility."
+
+   The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated.  */
+extern const char * gl_locale_name_default (void);
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _GL_LOCALENAME_H */