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
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.
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
orint_curr_symbol
.1
The sign string precedes the quantity and the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.2
The sign string succeeds the quantity and the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.3
The sign string precedes the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.4
The sign string succeeds the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.
n_sign_posn
0
Parentheses enclose the quantity and the
currency_symbol
orint_curr_symbol
.1
The sign string precedes the quantity and the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.2
The sign string succeeds the quantity and the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.3
The sign string precedes the
currency_symbol
or theint_curr_symbol
.4
The sign string succeeds the
currency_symbol
or theint_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 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.
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
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project. A
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bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
This file is part of locale(1) which displays the settings of the current locale. Copyright (C) 1994 Jochen Hein (HeinStudent.TU-Clausthal.de) Copyright (C) 2008 Petr Baudis (paskysuse.cz) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. 2008-06-17 Petr Baudis <paskysuse.cz> LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday |