Localization: default measurement units

Hi,

Is it possible to determine the default measurement unit (metric or
imperial) for the current locale?
The command:

locale -ck LC_MEASUREMENT

gives me the following output:

LC_MEASUREMENT
measurement=2
measurement-codeset="UTF-8"

I'm not sure what '2' is, but I would be happy if I could at least get
the same result with the code below:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <langinfo.h>

int main() {
#ifdef LC_MEASUREMENT
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
printf("%s\n", nl_langinfo(_NL_NUM_LC_MEASUREMENT));
#endif
return 0;
}

However, it prints nothing but an empty line.

Any idea how this could be done?

Cosmin
.

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