locale.alias

locale.alias

NAME DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO AUTHOR

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

Where 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.

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SEE ALSO

locale(1), localedef(1), locale-gen(8), locale.gen(5)

AUTHOR

Alastair !McKinstry?