find-locale

Function

Package: excl

Arguments: name

name can be a string naming a locale or a symbol (in which case, the symbol-name is used) or a locale. If it is a string (or symbol), this function returns the locale whose name matches the string. If no such locale exists, nil is returned. If name is a locale, it is returned.

Examples:

(find-locale "POSIX") 
  -> #<locale "POSIX" (English/default) [:latin1-base]>

General information on international character set support in Allegro CL is in iacl.htm. See particularly Locales in that document.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

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Created 2000.10.5.