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APIThe Informix® GLS API Programmer's Guide describes the global language support (GLS) application programming interface (API) available in Informix® ESQL/C and HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
Data formattingYou must handle the format of locale-specific data in your applications.
Locale-specific data formatsThe format in which data appears within an application when it is in literal strings or character variables is called the end-user format. End-user formats are locale specific: different countries use different formats for numeric, monetary, date, and date/time data.

Locale-specific data formats

The format in which data appears within an application when it is in literal strings or character variables is called the end-user format. End-user formats are locale specific: different countries use different formats for numeric, monetary, date, and date/time data.

The GLS locale file defines locale-specific formats for each of these types of data, as the following table shows.


Type of data	Locale-file category	SQL built-in data types
Numeric	LC_NUMERIC	DECIMAL, INT8, INTEGER, SMALLINT, FLOAT, SMALLFLOAT
Monetary	LC_MONETARY	MONEY
Date and time	LC_TIME	DATE, DATETIME

For more information about the end-user formats that this section describes, see the Informix® GLS User's Guide.

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