locale.alias(s)                                   locale.alias(s)



NAME
       locale.alias - Locale name alias data base

DESCRIPTION
       The locale.alias database file (/etc/locale.alias) is used
       by the locale command and the X Window System It describes
       aliases for the locales, with each line being of the form

       <alias> <localename>

       Where  <localename> is in the POSIX format: xx_YY.CHARSET.
       The first two letters xx are the ISO-639 Language code,
        the next two YY are the ISO-3166 Country  code,  and  the
       Charset   is   one  of  the   character  sets  (listed  in
       /usr/share/i18n/charsets ).  The aliases can be free text;
       they  are  normally  the English language name, or simpler
       versions of the POSIX locale name.

       Lines beginning with Hash ("#") are  treated  as  comments
       and ignored.


SEE ALSO
       locale(e), localedef(f), locale-gen(n),  locale.gen(n)

AUTHOR
       Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>



Debian GNU/Linux           January 2002           locale.alias(s)