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| author | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2019-04-10 10:38:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> | 2019-04-11 08:20:29 +0000 |
| commit | 064a731a110efc5ad7e314bc686f74c759f39437 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a9f47923949b17b15dc7b62801643ffbd1f4bda | |
| parent | 73698cb3401b9445ba0ad6b0a6cc3e125e50a745 (diff) | |
Correct the description of the "C" locale
It is not identical to en_US, as we have long claimed.
Fixes: QTBUG-75069
Change-Id: I236adcefdcb4120d2bf5adbcde727c5e3ca13986
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/tools/qlocale.qdoc | 2 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp index df768fb875..506b32a257 100644 --- a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp @@ -2351,6 +2351,17 @@ QString QLocale::toString(double i, char f, int prec) const Returns a QLocale object initialized to the "C" locale. + This locale is based on en_US but with various quirks of its own, such as + simplified number formatting and its own date formatting. It implements the + POSIX standards that describe the behavior of standard library functions of + the "C" programming language. + + Among other things, this means its collation order is based on the ASCII + values of letters, so that (for case-sensitive sorting) all upper-case + letters sort before any lower-case one (rather than each letter's upper- and + lower-case forms sorting adjacent to one another, before the next letter's + two forms). + \sa system() */ diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.qdoc b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.qdoc index 76ca909d83..4a4aa4ba2b 100644 --- a/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.qdoc +++ b/src/corelib/tools/qlocale.qdoc @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ This enumerated type is used to specify a language. \value AnyLanguage - \value C The "C" locale is identical in behavior to English/UnitedStates. + \value C A simplified English locale; see QLocale::c() \value Abkhazian \value Oromo \value Afan Obsolete, please use Oromo |