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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
escape-character 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
comment-character for the rest of the file. It defaults to the number sign
(#).
The locale definition has 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.
The definition for the
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.
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.
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 4-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
currency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
- 2
- The sign string succeeds the quantity and the
currency_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
currency_symbol or the int_curr_symbol.
- 2
- The sign string succeeds the quantity and the
currency_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.
The definition starts with the string
LC_NUMERIC in the first column.
The following keywords are 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.
The definition starts with the string
LC_TIME in the first column.
The following keywords are allowed:
- abday
- followed by a list of abbreviated weekday names. The list
starts with Sunday or its translation.
- day
- followed by a list of weekday names. The list starts with
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.
The definition starts with the string
LC_MESSAGES in the first column.
The following keywords are allowed:
- yesexpr
- followed by a regular expression that describes possible
yes-responses.
- noexpr
- followed by a regular expression that describes possible
no-responses.
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.
POSIX.2
locale(1),
localedef(1),
localeconv(3),
setlocale(3),
charmap(5)
