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36.Dd October 18, 2018
37.Dt LOCALEDEF 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm localedef
41.Nd define locale environment
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl bcDlUv
45.Op Fl f Ar charmap
46.Op Fl i Ar sourcefile
47.Op Fl u Ar codeset
48.Op Fl w Ar widthfile
49.Ar localename
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53utility converts source definitions for locale categories
54into a format usable by the functions and utilities whose operational behavior
55is determined by the setting of the locale environment variables; see
56.Xr environ 7 .
57.Pp
58The utility reads source definitions for one or more locale categories
59belonging to the same locale from the file named in the
60.Fl i
61option (if specified) or from standard input.
62.Pp
63Each category source definition is identified by the corresponding environment
64variable name and terminated by an
65.Sy END
66.Em category-name
67statement.
68The following categories are supported:
69.Bl -tag -width ".Ev LC_MONETARY"
70.It Ev LC_CTYPE
71Defines character classification and case conversion.
72.It Ev LC_COLLATE
73Defines collation rules.
74.It Ev LC_MONETARY
75Defines the format and symbols used in formatting of monetary information.
76.It Ev LC_NUMERIC
77Defines the decimal delimiter, grouping and grouping symbol for non-monetary
78numeric editing.
79.It Ev LC_TIME
80Defines the format and content of date and time information.
81.It Ev LC_MESSAGES
82Defines the format and values of affirmative and negative responses.
83.El
84.Pp
85The following options are supported:
86.Bl -tag -width indent
87.It Fl b
88Use big-endian byte order for output.
89.It Fl c
90Creates permanent output even if warning messages have been issued.
91.It Fl D
92BSD-style
93output.
94Rather than the default of creating the
95.Ar localename
96directory and creating files like
97.Pa LC_CTYPE ,
98.Pa LC_COLLATE ,
99etc.\& in that directory,
100the output file names have the format
101.Dq <localename>.<category>
102and are dumped to the current directory.
103.It Fl f Ar charmap
104Specifies the pathname of a file containing a mapping of character symbols and
105collating element symbols to actual character encodings.
106This option must be specified if symbolic names (other than collating symbols
107defined in a
108.Sy collating-symbol
109keyword) are used.
110If the
111.Fl f
112option is not present, the default character mapping will be used.
113.It Fl i Ar sourcefile
114The path name of a file containing the source definitions.
115If this option is not present, source definitions will be read from
116standard input.
117.It Fl l
118Use little-endian byte order for output.
119.It Fl u Ar codeset
120Specifies the name of a codeset used as the target mapping of character symbols
121and collating element symbols whose encoding values are defined in terms of the
122ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values.
123See
124.Sx NOTES .
125.It Fl U
126Ignore the presence of character symbols that have no matching character
127definition.
128This facilitates the use of a common locale definition file to be used across multiple
129encodings, even when some symbols are not present in a given encoding.
130.It Fl v
131Emit verbose debugging output on standard output.
132.It Fl w Ar widthfile
133The path name of the file containing character screen width definitions.
134If not supplied, then default screen widths will be assumed, which will
135generally not account for East Asian encodings requiring more than a single
136character cell to display, nor for combining or accent marks that occupy
137no additional screen width.
138.El
139.Pp
140The following operands are required:
141.Bl -tag -width ".Ar localename"
142.It Ar localename
143Identifies the locale.
144If the name contains one or more slash characters,
145.Ar localename
146will be interpreted as a path name where the created locale
147definitions will be stored.
148This capability may be restricted to users with appropriate privileges.
149(As a consequence of specifying one
150.Ar localename ,
151although several categories can be processed in one execution, only categories
152belonging to the same locale can be processed.)
153.El
154.Sh OUTPUT
155.Nm
156creates a directory of files that represents the locale's data,
157unless instructed otherwise by the
158.Fl D (
159BSD
160output) option.
161The contants of this directory should generally be copied into the
162appropriate subdirectory of
163.Pa /usr/share/locale
164in order the definitions to be visible to programs linked with libc.
165.Sh ENVIRONMENT
166See
167.Xr environ 7
168for definitions of the following environment variables that affect the
169execution of
170.Nm :
171.Ev LANG ,
172.Ev LC_ALL ,
173.Ev LC_COLLATE ,
174.Ev LC_CTYPE ,
175.Ev LC_MESSAGES ,
176.Ev LC_MONETARY ,
177.Ev LC_MUMERIC ,
178.Ev LC_TIME ,
179and
180.Ev NLSPATH .
181.Sh EXIT STATUS
182The following exit values are returned:
183.Bl -tag -width XX
184.It 0
185No errors occurred and the locales were successfully created.
186.It 1
187Warnings occurred and the locales were successfully created.
188.It 2
189The locale specification exceeded implementation limits or the coded character
190set or sets used were not supported by the implementation, and no locale was
191created.
192.It >3
193Warnings or errors occurred and no output was created.
194.El
195.Pp
196If an error is detected, no permanent output will be created.
197.Sh SEE ALSO
198.Xr locale 1 ,
199.Xr iconv_open 3 ,
200.Xr nl_langinfo 3 ,
201.Xr strftime 3 ,
202.Xr environ 7
203.Sh WARNINGS
204If warnings occur, permanent output will be created if the
205.Fl c
206option was specified.
207The following conditions will cause warning messages to be issued:
208.Bl -bullet
209.It
210If a symbolic name not found in the
211.Pa charmap
212file is used for the descriptions of the
213.Sy LC_CTYPE
214or
215.Sy LC_COLLATE
216categories (for other categories, this will be an error condition).
217.It
218If optional keywords not supported by the implementation are present in the
219source.
220.El
221.Sh NOTES
222When the
223.Fl u
224option is used, the
225.Ar codeset
226option-argument is interpreted as a name of a codeset to which the
227ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values are converted.
228Both the ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values and
229other formats (decimal, hexadecimal, or octal) are valid as encoding
230values within the charmap file.
231The
232.Ar codeset
233can be any codeset that is supported by the
234.Fn iconv_open 3
235function.
236.Pp
237When conflicts occur between the charmap specification of
238.Ar codeset ,
239.Em mb_cur_max ,
240or
241.Em mb_cur_min
242and the corresponding value for the codeset represented by the
243.Fl u
244option-argument
245.Ar codeset ,
246the
247.Nm
248utility fails with an error.
249.Pp
250When conflicts occur between the charmap encoding values specified for symbolic
251names of characters of the portable character set and the character encoding
252values defined by the US-ASCII, the result is unspecified.
253.Sh HISTORY
254.Nm
255first appeared in
256.Fx 11 .
257.Pp
258It was written by
259.An Garrett D'Amore
260.Aq Mt garrett@nexenta.com
261for Illumos.
262.An John Marino
263.Aq Mt draco@marino.st
264provided the alternations necessary to compile cleanly on
265.Dx .
266.An Baptiste Daroussin
267.Aq Mt bapt@FreeBSD.org
268ported it to
269.Fx
270and converted it to
271.Xr tree 3 .
272