[ios.base.locales] (original) (raw)

31 Input/output library [input.output]

31.5 Iostreams base classes [iostreams.base]

31.5.2 Class ios_base [ios.base]

31.5.2.4 Functions [ios.base.locales]

locale imbue(const locale& loc);

Effects: Calls each registered callback pair(fn, idx) ([ios.base.callback]) as(*fn)(imbue_event, *this, idx)at such a time that a call toios_base​::​getloc()from withinfnreturns the new locale valueloc.

Postconditions: loc == getloc().

Returns: The previous value ofgetloc().

Returns: If no locale has been imbued, a copy of the global C++ locale,locale(), in effect at the time of construction.

Otherwise, returns the imbued locale, to be used to perform locale-dependent input and output operations.