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    <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">localeconv</h1>            <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;locale.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl"> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> <pre data-language="c">struct lconv *localeconv(void);</pre>
</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> </tr>  </table> <p>The <code>localeconv</code> function obtains a pointer to a static object of type <code><a href="lconv" title="c/locale/lconv">lconv</a></code>, which represents numeric and monetary formatting rules of the current C locale.</p>
<h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <p>(none)</p>
<h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <p>pointer to the current <code><a href="lconv" title="c/locale/lconv">lconv</a></code> object.</p>
<h3 id="Notes"> Notes</h3> <p>Modifying the object references through the returned pointer is undefined behavior.</p>
<p><code>localeconv</code> modifies a static object, calling it from different threads without synchronization is undefined behavior.</p>
<h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;locale.h&gt;
 
int main(void)
{
  setlocale(LC_MONETARY, "en_IN.utf8");
  struct lconv *lc = localeconv();
  printf("Local Currency Symbol        : %s\n", lc-&gt;currency_symbol);
  printf("International Currency Symbol: %s\n", lc-&gt;int_curr_symbol);
}</pre></div> <p>Output:</p>
<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">Local Currency Symbol        : ₹
International Currency Symbol: INR</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3>  <ul>
<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li>
<ul><li> 7.11.2.1 The localeconv function (p: 225-230) </li></ul>
<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li>
<ul><li> 7.11.2.1 The localeconv function (p: 206-211) </li></ul>
<li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): </li>
<ul><li> 4.4.2.1 The localeconv function </li></ul>
</ul>         <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="setlocale" title="c/locale/setlocale"> <span class="t-lines"><span>setlocale</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> gets and sets the current C locale <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span>  </td>
</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="lconv" title="c/locale/lconv"> <span class="t-lines"><span>lconv</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> formatting details, returned by <code>localeconv</code> <br><span class="t-mark">(struct)</span> </td>
</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/locale/localeconv" title="cpp/locale/localeconv">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>localeconv</code> </td>
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