After doing all the stuff above you should now be able to use the locales that have been created. Here is a simple example program.

/* test.c : a simple test to see if the locales can be loaded, and
 * used */
#include 
#include 
#include 

main(){
 time_t t;
 struct tm * _t;
 char buf[256];

 time(&t);
 _t = gmtime(&t);

 setlocale(LC_TIME,"");
 strftime(buf,256,"%c",_t);

 printf("%s\n",buf);
}

You can use the locale program to see what your current locale environment variable settings are.

$ # compile the simple test program above, and run it with
$ # some different locale settings
$ gcc -s -o Test test.c
$ # see what the current locale is :
$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
$ # Ho, hum... we're using the boring C locale
$ # let's change to English Canadian:
$ export LC_TIME=en_CA
$ Test
Sat 23 Mar 1996 07:51:49 PM
$ # let's try French Canadian:
$ export LC_TIME=fr_CA
$ Test
sam 23 mar 1996 19:55:27