Defining custom localization values for a context

Table 3-2 describes how to define custom localization values at the context level:

**Table 3-2: Installing custom values at the context level**
Step	Application step	Purpose	Details
1	Call cs_loc_alloc.	Allocate a CS_LOCALE structure.	This call copies the parent context’s current localization information into the CS_LOCALE structure.
2	Call cs_locale.	Overwrite the CS_LOCALE structure with custom localization values.	For more information about this process, see “The cs_locale routine”. Open Server applications must call cs_locale with type as CS_LC_ALL. This ensures that Server-Library loads the CS_LOCALE structure with localization values that are internally consistent.
3	Optionally, call cs_dt_info.	Change datetime conversion formats in the CS_LOCALE structure.	For more information about cs_dt_info, see the Open Client and Open Server Common Libraries Reference Manual.
4	Call cs_config with property as CS_LOC_PROP	Customize a context.
5	Optionally, call cs_loc_drop.	Deallocate the CS_LOCALE structure.	An application can reuse the CS_LOCALE structure before deallocating it. If necessary, the application can call cs_locale to change the localization values in the structure before reusing it.