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NAME

       locale - Describes a locale definition file

DESCRIPTION

       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.

   Syntax
       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.

   LC_CTYPE
       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 through
              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 through
              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  through  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 through 9, a through f,  A
              through 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
       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
       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.

   LC_NUMERIC
       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.

   LC_TIME
       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  the  first  day  of  the week as specified by week
              (Sunday by default).

       day    followed by a list of weekday names.  The list starts  with  the
              first  day of the week as specified by week (Sunday by default).

       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.

       week   followed by a list of three values: The number of days in a week
              (by  default  7),  a  date  of beginning of the week (by default
              corresponds to Sunday), and the minimal length of the first week
              in  year  (by  default  4).   Regarding  the  start of the week,
              19971130 shall be used for Sunday and 19971201 shall be used for
              Monday.  Thus, countries using 19971130 should have local Sunday
              name as the first day in the day  list,  while  countries  using
              19971201 should have Monday translation as the first item in the
              day list.

       first_weekday (since glibc 2.2)
              Number of the first day  from  the  day  list  to  be  shown  in
              calendar  applications.   The  default value of 1 corresponds to
              either Sunday or Monday depending on the  value  of  the  second
              week list item.

       first_workday (since glibc 2.2)
              Number of the first working day from the day list.

       The LC_TIME definition ends with the string END LC_TIME.

   LC_MESSAGES
       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.

FILES

       /usr/lib/locale/ — database for the  current  locale  setting  of  that
       category
       /usr/lib/nls/charmap/* — charmap-files

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.2, ISO/IEC 14652.

BUGS

       This manual page isn’t complete.

SEE ALSO

       locale(1), localedef(1), localeconv(3), setlocale(3), charmap(5)

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