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 LOCALEDEF 1 "April 9, 2016"
 NAME
localedef - define locale environment
 SYNOPSIS
localedef [-c] [-v] [-U] [-f charmap]
 [-w widthfile] [-i sourcefile]
 [-u code_set_name] localename


 DESCRIPTION
The localedef utility converts source definitions for locale categories
into a format usable by the functions and utilities whose operational behavior
is determined by the setting of the locale environment variables; see
environ(5).

The utility reads source definitions for one or more locale categories
belonging to the same locale from the file named in the -i option (if
specified) or from standard input.

Each category source definition is identified by the corresponding environment
variable name and terminated by an END category-name statement. The
following categories are supported.
LC_CTYPE

Defines character classification and case conversion.


LC_COLLATE

Defines collation rules.


LC_MONETARY

Defines the format and symbols used in formatting of monetary information.


LC_NUMERIC

Defines the decimal delimiter, grouping and grouping symbol for non-monetary
numeric editing.


LC_TIME

Defines the format and content of date and time information.


LC_MESSAGES

Defines the format and values of affirmative and negative responses.


 OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c

Creates permanent output even if warning messages have been issued.


-v

Emit verbose debugging output on standard output.


-U

Ignore the presence of character symbols that have no matching character
definition. This facilitates the use of a common locale definition file
to be used across multiple encodings, even when some symbols are not
present in a given encoding.
Support for this option is an illumos extension.


-f charmap

Specifies the pathname of a file containing a mapping of character symbols and
collating element symbols to actual character encodings. This option must be
specified if symbolic names (other than collating symbols defined in a
collating-symbol keyword) are used. If the -f option is not
present, the default character mapping will be used.


-w widthfile

The path name of the file containing character screen width definitions.
If not supplied, then default screen widths will be assumed, which will
generally not account for East Asian encodings requiring more than a single
character cell to display, nor for combining or accent marks that occupy
no additional screen width.
The support for width files is an illumos extension.


-i sourcefile

The path name of a file containing the source definitions. If this option is
not present, source definitions will be read from standard input.


-u code_set_name

Specifies the name of a codeset used as the target mapping of character symbols
and collating element symbols whose encoding values are defined in terms of the
ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000 standard position constant values. See NOTES.


 OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
localename

Identifies the locale. If the name contains one or more slash characters,
localename will be interpreted as a path name where the created locale
definitions will be stored. This capability may be restricted to users with
appropriate privileges. (As a consequence of specifying one localename,
although several categories can be processed in one execution, only categories
belonging to the same locale can be processed.)


 OUTPUT
localedef creates a directory of files that represents the locale's
data. The contents of this directory should generally be copied into the
appropriate subdirectory of /usr/lib/locale in order the definitions to
be visible to programs linked with libc.
 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for definitions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of localedef: LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
 EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0

No errors occurred and the locales were successfully created.


1

Warnings occurred and the locales were successfully created.


2

The locale specification exceeded implementation limits or the coded character
set or sets used were not supported by the implementation, and no locale was
created.


>3

Warnings or errors occurred and no output was created.


If an error is detected, no permanent output will be created.
 FILES
/usr/lib/locale/localename/

The directory containing locale data.


 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Standard


 SEE ALSO
locale(1), iconv_open(3C), nl_langinfo(3C),
strftime(3C), attributes(5), charmap(5), environ(5),
extensions(5), locale(5), standards(5)
 WARNINGS
If warnings occur, permanent output will be created if the -c option was
specified. The following conditions will cause warning messages to be issued:


If a symbolic name not found in the charmap file is used for the
descriptions of the LC_CTYPE or LC_COLLATE categories (for other
categories, this will be an error condition).


If optional keywords not supported by the implementation are present in the
source.

 NOTES
When the -u option is used, the code_set_name option-argument is
interpreted as a name of a codeset to which the ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000 standard
position constant values are converted. Both the ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000 standard
position constant values and other formats (decimal, hexadecimal, or octal) are
valid as encoding values within the charmap file. The codeset can be any
codeset that is supported by the iconv_open(3C) function on the system.

When conflicts occur between the charmap specification of code_set_name,
mb_cur_max, or mb_cur_min and the corresponding value for the
codeset represented by the -u option-argument code_set_name, the
localedef utility fails as an error.

When conflicts occur between the charmap encoding values specified for symbolic
names of characters of the portable character set and the character encoding
values defined by the US-ASCII, the result is unspecified.