std::locale::name(3)

✨ std::locale::name(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the std::locale::name page — it lives in the C++ Standard Library man pages and honestly it's a short one, so grab a lil snack and let's go 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

std::locale::name — literally exactly what it says on the tin: std::locale::name

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🦋 Synopsis 🦋

where it lives

Defined in header <locale> 🎀

std::string name() const;

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💜 Description 💜

So what does it do? It returns the name of the locale — and by that we mean the name by which it is known to the operating system, like "POSIX" or "en_US.UTF8" or "English_United States.1252". Slay, very demure, very OS-facing ✨

🫶 heads up though: if the locale is not a copy of a system-supplied locale, the string "*" is returned. that's it. that's the whole vibe check.

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🎀 Return value 🎀

The name of the locale — or "*" if it's unnamed. that's the tea ☕

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🔥 Example 🔥

// Run this code 👀

#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    std::locale loc(std::locale(), new std::ctype<char>);
    std::cout << "The default locale is " << std::locale().name() << '\n'
              << "The user's locale is " << std::locale("").name() << '\n'
              << "A nameless locale is " << loc.name() << '\n';
}

possible output 🌈

The default locale is C
The user's locale is en_US.UTF8
A nameless locale is *

see how the third one is just *? that's our unnamed lil homegirl loc — not a copy of a system-supplied locale, so she gets the asterisk treatment 💀✨

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👑 See also 👑

• constructor — constructs a new locale (public member function) 🧚

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