NAME

locale.alias — locale alias file

SYNOPSIS

locale.alias

DESCRIPTION

The locale.alias file describes locale aliases. Each line of this file can be described as the following BNF:

line			:=	src ws dst 
src			:=	locale_name 
			|	locale_category_name 
ws			:=	<white spaces> 
dst			:=	locale_name 
			|	"/FORCE" 
locale_category_name	:=	locale_name '/' category_name 
category_name		:=	"LC_CTYPE" 
			|	"LC_COLLATE" 
			|	"LC_TIME" 
			|	"LC_NUMERIC" 
			|	"LC_MONETARY" 
			|	"LC_MESSAGES" 
locale_name		:=	<locale name>

FILES

/usr/share/locale/locale.alias

This file.

EXAMPLES

ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE		en_US.UTF-8

This means that “ja_JP.UTF-8” for LC_CTYPE category is redirected to “en_US.UTF-8”.

Pig				/FORCE

This means that “Pig” for all categories is forcibly enabled.

SEE ALSO

locale(1), nls(7)

HISTORY

The locale.alias file appeared in NetBSD 3.0.