stri_locale_set:#

Description#

stri_locale_set changes the default locale for all the functions in the stringi package, i.e., establishes the meaning of the “NULL locale” argument of locale-sensitive functions. stri_locale_get gives the current default locale.

Usage#

stri_locale_set(locale)

stri_locale_get()

Arguments#

locale

single string of the form Language, Language_Country, or Language_Country_Variant, e.g., 'en_US', see stri_locale_list.

Details#

See stringi-locale for more information on the effect of changing the default locale.

stri_locale_get is the same as stri_locale_info(NULL)$Name.

Value#

stri_locale_set returns a string with previously used locale, invisibly.

stri_locale_get returns a string of the form Language, Language_Country, or Language_Country_Variant, e.g., 'en_US'.

Author(s)#

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

See Also#

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other locale_management: about_locale, stri_locale_info(), stri_locale_list()

Examples#

## Not run: 
oldloc <- stri_locale_set('pt_BR')
## You are now working with stringi_1.8.3 (pt_BR.UTF-8; ICU4C 74.1 [bundle]; Unicode 15.1)
# ... some locale-dependent operations
# ... note that you may always modify a locale per-call
# ... changing the default locale is convenient if you perform
# ... many operations
stri_locale_set(oldloc) # restore the previous default locale
## You are now working with stringi_1.8.3 (en_AU.UTF-8; ICU4C 74.1 [bundle]; Unicode 15.1)
## End(Not run)