locale - Describes a locale definition file
The locale definition files contains all the information that the
localedef(1) command needs to convert it into the binary locale database.
The definition files consist of sections which each describe a locale
category in detail.
The locale definition file starts with a header, that may consist of
the following keywords:
<escape_char>
is followed by a character that should be used as the escapecharacter
for the rest of the file to mark characters that
should be interpreted in a special way. It defaults to the backslash
( \ ).
<comment_char>
is followed by a character that will be used as the commentcharacter
for the rest of the file. It defaults to the number
sign ( # ).
The locale definitions is divided it one part for each locale category.
Each part can be copied from another existing locale or can be defined
from scratch. If the category should be copied, the only valid keyword
in the definition is copy followed by the name of the locale which
should be copied.
LC_CTYPE [Toc] [Back]
LC_CTYPE category starts with the string LC_CTYPE in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
upper followed by a list of uppercase letters. The letters A trough Z
are included automatically. Characters also specified as cntrl,
digit, punct, or space are not allowed.
lower followed by a list of lowercase letters. The letters a trough z
are included automatically. Characters also specified as cntrl,
digit, punct, or space are not allowed.
alpha followed by a list of letters. All character specified as either
upper or lower are automatically included. Characters also specified
as cntrl, digit, punct, or space are not allowed.
digit followed by the characters classified as numeric digits. Only
the digits 0 trough 9 are allowed. They are included by default
in this class.
space followed by a list of characters defined as white-space characters.
Characters also specified as upper, lower, alpha, digit,
graph, or xdigit are not allowed. The characters <space>, <form-
feed>, <newline>, <carriage-return>, <tab>, and <vertical-tab>
are automatically included.
cntrl followed by a list of control characters. Characters also specified
as upper, lower, alpha, digit, punct, graph, print or
xdigit are not allowed.
punct followed by a list of punctuation characters. Characters also
specified as upper, lower, alpha, digit, cntrl, xdigit or the
<space> character are not allowed.
graph followed by a list of printable characters, not including the
<space> character. The characters defined as upper, lower,
alpha, digit, xdigit and punct are automatically included.
Characters also specified as cntrl are not allowed.
print followed by a list of printable characters, including the
<space> character. The characters defined as upper, lower,
alpha, digit, xdigit, punct and the <space> character are automatically
included. Characters also specified as cntrl are not
allowed.
xdigit followed by a list of characters classified as hexadecimal digits.
The decimal digits must be included followed by one or more
set of six characters in ascending order. The following characters
are included by default: 0 trough 9, a trough f, A trough
F.
blank followed by a list of characters classified as blank. The characters
<space> and <tab> are automatically included.
toupper
followed by a list of mappings from lowercase to uppercase letters.
Each mapping is a pair of a lowercase and an uppercase
letter separated with a , and enclosed in parentheses. The members
of the list are separated with semicolons.
tolower
followed by a list of mappings from uppercase to lowercase letters.
If the keyword tolower is not present, the reverse of the
toupper list is used.
The LC_CTYPE definition ends with the string END LC_CYTPE.
LC_COLLATE [Toc] [Back]
The LC_COLLATE category defines the rules for collating characters. Due
to limitations of libc not all POSIX-options are implemented.
The definition starts with the string LC_COLLATE in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
collating-element
collating-symbol
The order-definition starts with a line:
order_start
followed by a list of keywords out of forward, backward or position.
The order definition consists of lines that describe the order and is
terminated with the keyword
order_end.
For more details see the sources in /usr/lib/nls/src notably the examples
POSIX, Example and Example2
The LC_COLLATE definition ends with the string END LC_COLLATE.
LC_MONETARY [Toc] [Back]
The definition starts with the string LC_MONETARY in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
int_curr_symbol
followed by the international currency symbol. This must be a
four character string containing the international currency symbol
as defined by the ISO 4217 standard (three characters) followed
by a separator.
currency_symbol
followed by the local currency symbol.
mon_decimal_point
followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
when formatting monetary quantities.
mon_thousands_sep
followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
when formatting monetary quantities.
mon_grouping
followed by a string that describes the formatting of numeric
quantities.
positive_sign
followed by a string that is used to indicate a positive sign
for monetary quantities.
negative_sign
followed by a string that is used to indicate a negative sign
for monetary quantities.
int_frac_digits
followed by the number of fractional digits that should be used
when formatting with the int_curr_symbol.
frac_digits
followed by the number of fractional digits that should be used
when formatting with the currency_symbol.
p_cs_precedes
followed by an integer set to 1 if the currency_symbol or
int_curr_symbol
should precede the formatted monetary quantity or set to 0 if
the symbol succeeds the value.
p_sep_by_space
followed by an integer.
0 means that no space should be printed between the symbol
and the value.
1 means that a space should be printed between the symbol
and the value.
2 means that a space should be printed between the symbol
and the sign string, if adjacent.
n_cs_precedes
0 - the symbol succeeds the value
1 - the symbol precedes the value
n_sep_by_space
An integer set to 0 if no space separates the currency_symbol or
int_curr_symbol from the value for a negative monetary quantity,
set to 1 if a space separates the symbol from the value and set
to 2 if a space separates the symbol and the sign string, if
adjacent.
p_sign_posn
0 Parentheses enclose the quantity and the currency_symbol
or int_curr_symbol.
1 The sign string precedes the quantity and the cur-
rency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
2 The sign string succeeds the quantity and the cur-
rency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
3 The sign string precedes the currency_symbol or the
int_curr_symbol.
4 The sign string succeeds the currency_symbol or the
int_curr_symbol.
n_sign_posn
0 Parentheses enclose the quantity and the currency_symbol
or int_curr_symbol.
1 The sign string precedes the quantity and the cur-
rency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
2 The sign string succeeds the quantity and the cur-
rency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
3 The sign string precedes the currency_symbol or the
int_curr_symbol.
4 The sign string succeeds the currency_symbol or the
int_curr_symbol.
The LC_MONETARY definition ends with the string END LC_MONETARY.
LC_NUMERIC [Toc] [Back]
The definition starts with the string LC_NUMERIC in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
decimal_point
followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
when formatting numeric quantities.
thousands_sep
followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
when formatting numeric quantities.
grouping
followed by a string that describes the formatting of numeric
quantities.
The LC_NUMERIC definition ends with the string END LC_NUMERIC.
LC_TIME [Toc] [Back]
The definition starts with the string LC_TIME in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
abday followed by a list of abbreviated weekday names. The list starts
with the Sunday or it's translation.
day followed by a list of weekday names. The list starts with the
Sunday.
abmon followed by a list of abbreviated month names.
mon followed by a list of month names.
am_pm The appropriate representation of the am and pm strings.
d_t_fmt
The appropriate date and time format.
d_fmt The appropriate date format.
t_fmt The appropriate time format.
t_fmt_ampm
The appropriate time format when using 12h clock format.
The LC_TIME definition ends with the string END LC_TIME.
LC_MESSAGES [Toc] [Back]
The definition starts with the string LC_MESSAGES in the first column.
There are the following keywords allowed:
yesexpr
followed by a regular expression that describes possible yesresponses.
noexpr followed by a regular expression that describes possible noresponses.
The LC_MESSAGES definition ends with the string END LC_MESSAGES.
See the POSIX.2 standard for details.
/usr/lib/locale/ - database for the current locale setting of that category
/usr/lib/nls/charmap/* - charmap-files
The manpage isn't complete.
Jochen Hein (Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de)
POSIX.2
setlocale(3), localeconv(3), charmap(5), locale(1), localedef(1)
National Language Support 1994-11-09 locale(5)
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