Table 6 shows
the ISO8859-1 (Latin-1 alphabet) locale categories.
Table 6. Default ISO8859-1 locales
Symbol
Description
__use_iso8859_ctype
Selects the ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) classification
of characters. This is essentially 7-bit ASCII, except that the
character codes 160-255 represent a selection of useful European
punctuation characters, letters, and accented letters.
__use_iso8859_collate
Selects the strcoll/strxfrm collation
table appropriate to the Latin-1 alphabet. The default C locale
does not require a collation table.
__use_iso8859_monetary
Selects the Sterling monetary category using
Latin-1 coding.
__use_iso8859_numeric
Selects separation of thousands with commas
in the printing of numeric values.
__use_iso8859_locale
Selects all the ISO8859-1 selections described
in this table.
There is no ISO8859-1 version of the LC_TIME category.
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