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Synopsis

Availability

SUNWcsu

Description

The 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.

Each category source definition is identified by the corresponding environment variable name and terminated by an END category-name statement. The following categories are supported.

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

-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. This option must be specified if symbolic names (other than collating symbols defined in a collating-symbol keyword) are used. If the -f option is not present, the default character mapping will be used.

-i sourcefile

The path name of a file containing the source definitions. If this option is not present, source definitions will be read from standard input.

Operands

localename

Identifies the locale. If the name contains one or more slash characters, localename will be interpreted as a path name where the created locale definitions will be stored. This capability may be restricted to users with appropriate privileges. (As a consequence of specifying one localename, although several categories can be processed in one execution, only categories belonging to the same locale can be processed.)

Output

Category	File	Description
LC_CTYPE	localename.chrtbl	binary data containing character classification information
	localename.chrtbl.c	C language source file, to be used by programmers as needed
	localename.charmap	character mapping file
LC_COLLATE	localename.collate	collation information used by runtime collation library routines
	localename.collate.hash	hashed collation information
LC_MESSAGES	localename.message.msg	binary message catalogue file used by nl_langinfo()
	localename.message	source message catalogue file
LC_NUMERIC	localename.numeric	binary numeric information for numeric category
LC_TIME	localename.time	text file containing information used by strftime() and nl_langinfo()
LC_MONETARY	localename.monetary	binary monetary information used by strftime() and nl_langinfo()

The files created by localedef should be renamed as follows:

localename.chrtbl

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_CTYPE /ctype

localename.charmap

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_CTYPE /charmap

localename.collate

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_COLLATE /CollTable

localename.collate.hash

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_COLLATE /CollTable.hash

localename.message.msg

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES /SUNW_OST_LINFO

localename.numeric

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_NUMERIC /numeric

localename.time

/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_TIME

/time

Environment

Exit Status

1. No errors occurred and the locales were successfully created.
2. Warnings occurred and the locales were successfully created.
3. 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.
4. The capability to create new locales is not supported by the implementation.
   >3
   Warnings or errors occurred and no output was created.

   If an error is detected, no permanent output will be created.

   See Also

   locale(1) , nl_langinfo(3C) , strftime(3C) , charmap(5) , environ(5) , locale(5)

   Warnings

   If warnings occur, permanent output will be created if the -c option was specified. The following conditions will cause warning messages to be issued:
   • If a symbolic name not found in the charmap file is used for the descriptions of the LC_CTYPE or LC_COLLATE categories (for other categories, this will be an error conditions).
   • If optional keywords not supported by the implementation are present in the source.

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   • Name
   • Synopsis
   • Availability
   • Description
   • Options
   • Operands
   • Output
   • Environment
   • Exit Status
   • See Also
   • Warnings