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The [GNU convention|http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Names.html] for naming your locale(7) takes forms such as |
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''ll''<br> |
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''ll''_''cc''<br> |
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''ll''.''enc''<br> |
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''ll''_''cc''.''enc'' |
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where ''ll'' is an [ISO] 639 language code (lowercase), ''cc'' is an [ISO] 3166 country code (uppercase), and ''enc'' is an encoding (uppercase). For example |
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<tt>en_GB</tt> -- British English<br> |
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<tt>en_NZ.UTF-8</tt> -- New Zealand English, UTF-8 encoding<br> |
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<tt>ja</tt> -- Japanese language<br> |
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<tt>ja.SJIS</tt> -- Japanese language, Shift-JIS encoding<br> |
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<tt>ja_JP.UTF-8</tt> -- Japanese language, UTF-8 encoding, as used in Japan |
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There is also a special locale, just named “<tt>C</tt>”, which just means “no localization”. |
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These names are used as directory names for holding the corresponding localization information in <tt>/usr/share/X11/locale/</tt>''localename''<tt>/</tt>. |
