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The montbl command takes as input a specification file, infile, that describes the formatting conventions for monetary quantities for a specific locale.
infile describes the monetary formatting conventions for a specific locale. The output of montbl is suitable for use by localeconv(3C) , after the super-user has installed outfile as /usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MONETARY . This file must be readable by everybody.
Before calling localeconv(), a program should set the locale category LC_MONETARY using setlocale(3C) . This file is used by the localeconv() function to initialize the monetary specific fields of a structure of type struct lconv. For a description of the fields in this structure, see localeconv(3C) .
struct lconv {
char *decimal_point; /* "" (zero length string) */
char *thousands_sep; /* "" (zero length string) */
char *grouping; /* "" */
char *int_curr_symbol; /* "" */
char *currency_symbol; /* "" */
char *mon_decimal_point; /* "" */
char *mon_thousands_sep; /* "" */
char *mon_grouping; /* "" */
char *positive_sign; /* "" */
char *negative_sign; /* "" */
char int_frac_digits; /* CHAR_MAX */
char frac_digits; /* CHAR_MAX */
char p_cs_precedes; /* CHAR_MAX */
char p_sep_by_space; /* CHAR_MAX */
char n_cs_precedes; /* CHAR_MAX */
char n_sep_by_space; /* CHAR_MAX */
char p_sign_posn; /* CHAR_MAX */
char n_sign_posn; /* CHAR_MAX */
};
The specification file specifies the value of each struct lconv member, except for the first two members, decimal_point and thousands_sep, which are set by the LC_NUMERIC category of setlocale(3C) . Each member’s value is given on a line in the order defined in the lconv structure.
Blank lines and comment lines starting with # are ignored. Characters in strings may be in octal or hex representation; for example, \141 or \x61 indicate the letter ‘a’. If there is no specification line for a given structure member, the default ‘C’ locale value for is used (these values are shown as comments in the struct lconv definition above). Here is a specification file for Japan. Note that \3 is in octal, as specified by ANSI C. The string \xa1\xef is a multibyte sequence for the Yen symbol ‘yn’.
# first eight items have string values, remaining items have # numeric values. # grouping= \3 # int_curr_symbol= JPY # currency_symbol= \xa1\xef # mon_decimal_point= . # mon_thousands_sep= , # mon_grouping= \3 # positive_sign= # negative_sign= - # int_frac_digits= 0 # frac_digits= 0 # p_cs_precedes= 1 # p_sep_by_space= 0 # n_cs_precedes= 1 # n_sep_by_space= 0 # p_sign_posn= 1 # n_sign_posn= 4
Do not change files under the C locale, as this could cause undefined or nonstandard behavior.