newlocale (GNU Gnulib)

Gnulib module: newlocale

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

This function is missing on many platforms: FreeBSD 9.0, NetBSD 6.1, OpenBSD 6.1, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 2.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4.
This function is useless because the locale_t type is not defined on some platforms: z/OS.
When the third argument is NULL, this function uses locale category data from the current locale instead of from the "C" locale on some platforms: macOS, NetBSD 10.0, Solaris 11 OpenIndiana.
When the second argument is an invalid or unsupported locale name, this function uses the "C" locale instead of failing on some platforms: NetBSD 10.0.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

This function is useless because the locale_t type contains basically no information on some platforms: OpenBSD 6.3.