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 utility supports

as private, or restricted-access locales. Implementations may restrict the capability to create or modify public locales to users with the appropriate privileges.

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  inputfile 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 internationalisation 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 internationalisation 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 internationalisation variables.

LC_COLLATE
    (This variable has no affect 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 affect 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.