localedef

LOCALEDEF(1)                 General Commands Manual                LOCALEDEF(1)

NAME
     localedef – define locale environment

SYNOPSIS
     localedef [-c] [-f charmap] [-i sourcefile] name

DESCRIPTION
     The localedef 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.

     The name operand identifies the target locale. The localedef utility
     supports the creation of public, or generally accessible locales, as well
     as private, or restricted-access locales.

     Each category source definition is identified by the corresponding
     environment variable name and terminated by an END category-name statement.

           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       Create permanent output even if warning messages have been issued.

     -f charmap
              Specify the pathname of a file containing a mapping of character
              symbols and collating element symbols to actual character
              encodings.

     -i sourcefile
              The pathname of a file containing the source definitions. If this
              option is not present, source definitions will be read from
              standard input.

OPERANDS
     The following operand is supported:

     name     Identifies the locale.  If the name contains one or more slash
              characters, name will be interpreted as a pathname where the
              created locale definitions will be stored.  If name does not
              contain any slash characters, the locale will be public.  This
              capability is restricted to users with appropriate privileges.
              (As a consequence of specifying one name, although several
              categories can be processed in one execution, only categories
              belonging to the same locale can be processed.)

ENVIRONMENT
     The following environment variables affect the execution of localedef:

     LANG        Provide a default value for the internationalization variables
                 that are unset or null.  If LANG is unset or null, the
                 corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default
                 locale will be used.  If any of the internationalization
                 variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave
                 as if none of the variables had been defined.

     LC_ALL      If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all
                 the other internationalization variables.

     LC_COLLATE  (This variable has no effect on localedef; the POSIX locale
                 will be used for this category.)

     LC_CTYPE    Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
                 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- as
                 opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and input files).
                 This variable has no effect on the processing of localedef
                 input data; the POSIX locale is used for this purpose,
                 regardless of the value of this variable.

     LC_MESSAGES
                 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
                 and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.

     NLSPATH     Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing
                 of LC_MESSAGES.

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.

     >2       Warnings or errors occurred and no output was created.

Darwin                          September 9, 2004                         Darwin