/*
 *  call-seq:
 *     Ferret.locale = "en_US.UTF-8"
 *
 *  Set the global locale. You should use this method to set different locales
 *  when indexing documents with different encodings.
 */
static VALUE frt_set_locale(VALUE self, VALUE locale)
{
    char *l = ((locale == Qnil) ? NULL : rs2s(rb_obj_as_string(locale)));
    frt_locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, l);
    return frt_locale ? rb_str_new2(frt_locale) : Qnil;
}