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33.Dd July 28, 2015
34.Dt LOCALEDEF 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm localedef
38.Nd define locale environment
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl cDUv
42.Op Fl f Ar charmap
43.Op Fl i Ar sourcefile
44.Op Fl u Ar codeset
45.Op Fl w Ar widthfile
46.Ar localename
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility converts source definitions for locale categories
51into a format usable by the functions and utilities whose operational behavior
52is determined by the setting of the locale environment variables; see
53.Xr environ 7 .
54.Pp
55The utility reads source definitions for one or more locale categories
56belonging to the same locale from the file named in the
57.Fl i
58option (if specified) or from standard input.
59.Pp
60Each category source definition is identified by the corresponding environment
61variable name and terminated by an
62.Sy END
63.Em category-name
64statement.
65The following categories are supported:
66.Bl -tag -width ".Ev LC_MONETARY"
67.It Ev LC_CTYPE
68Defines character classification and case conversion.
69.It Ev LC_COLLATE
70Defines collation rules.
71.It Ev LC_MONETARY
72Defines the format and symbols used in formatting of monetary information.
73.It Ev LC_NUMERIC
74Defines the decimal delimiter, grouping and grouping symbol for non-monetary
75numeric editing.
76.It Ev LC_TIME
77Defines the format and content of date and time information.
78.It Ev LC_MESSAGES
79Defines the format and values of affirmative and negative responses.
80.El
81.Pp
82The following options are supported:
83.Bl -tag -width indent
84.It Fl c
85Creates permanent output even if warning messages have been issued.
86.It Fl D
87BSD-style
88output.
89Rather than the default of creating the
90.Ar localename
91directory and creating files like
92.Pa LC_CTYPE ,
93.Pa LC_COLLATE ,
94etc.\& in that directory,
95the output file names have the format
96.Dq <localename>.<category>
97and are dumped to the current directory.
98.It Fl f Ar charmap
99Specifies the pathname of a file containing a mapping of character symbols and
100collating element symbols to actual character encodings.
101This option must be specified if symbolic names (other than collating symbols
102defined in a
103.Sy collating-symbol
104keyword) are used.
105If the
106.Fl f
107option is not present, the default character mapping will be used.
108.It Fl i Ar sourcefile
109The path name of a file containing the source definitions.
110If this option is not present, source definitions will be read from
111standard input.
112.It Fl u Ar codeset
113Specifies the name of a codeset used as the target mapping of character symbols
114and collating element symbols whose encoding values are defined in terms of the
115ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values.
116See
117.Sx NOTES .
118.It Fl U
119Ignore the presence of character symbols that have no matching character
120definition.  This facilitates the use of a common locale definition file
121to be used across multiple encodings, even when some symbols are not
122present in a given encoding.
123.It Fl v
124Emit verbose debugging output on standard output.
125.It Fl w Ar widthfile
126The path name of the file containing character screen width definitions.
127If not supplied, then default screen widths will be assumed, which will
128generally not account for East Asian encodings requiring more than a single
129character cell to display, nor for combining or accent marks that occupy
130no additional screen width.
131.El
132.Pp
133The following operands are required:
134.Bl -tag -width ".Ar localename"
135.It Ar localename
136Identifies the locale.
137If the name contains one or more slash characters,
138.Ar localename
139will be interpreted as a path name where the created locale
140definitions will be stored.
141This capability may be restricted to users with appropriate privileges.
142(As a consequence of specifying one
143.Ar localename ,
144although several categories can be processed in one execution, only categories
145belonging to the same locale can be processed.)
146.El
147.Sh OUTPUT
148.Nm
149creates a directory of files that represents the locale's data,
150unless instructed otherwise by the
151.Fl D (
152BSD
153output) option.
154The contants of this directory should generally be copied into the
155appropriate subdirectory of
156.Pa /usr/share/locale
157in order the definitions to be visible to programs linked with libc.
158.Sh ENVIRONMENT
159See
160.Xr environ 7
161for definitions of the following environment variables that affect the
162execution of
163.Nm :
164.Ev LANG ,
165.Ev LC_ALL ,
166.Ev LC_COLLATE ,
167.Ev LC_CTYPE ,
168.Ev LC_MESSAGES ,
169.Ev LC_MONETARY ,
170.Ev LC_MUMERIC ,
171.Ev LC_TIME ,
172and
173.Ev NLSPATH .
174.Sh EXIT STATUS
175The following exit values are returned:
176.Bl -tag -width XX
177.It 0
178No errors occurred and the locales were successfully created.
179.It 1
180Warnings occurred and the locales were successfully created.
181.It 2
182The locale specification exceeded implementation limits or the coded character
183set or sets used were not supported by the implementation, and no locale was
184created.
185.It >3
186Warnings or errors occurred and no output was created.
187.El
188.Pp
189If an error is detected, no permanent output will be created.
190.Sh SEE ALSO
191.Xr locale 1 ,
192.Xr iconv_open 3 ,
193.Xr nl_langinfo 3 ,
194.Xr strftime 3 ,
195.Xr environ 7
196.Sh WARNINGS
197If warnings occur, permanent output will be created if the
198.Fl c
199option was specified.
200The following conditions will cause warning messages to be issued:
201.Bl -bullet
202.It
203If a symbolic name not found in the
204.Pa charmap
205file is used for the descriptions of the
206.Sy LC_CTYPE
207or
208.Sy LC_COLLATE
209categories (for other categories, this will be an error condition).
210.It
211If optional keywords not supported by the implementation are present in the
212source.
213.El
214.Sh NOTES
215When the
216.Fl u
217option is used, the
218.Ar codeset
219option-argument is interpreted as a name of a codeset to which the
220ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values are converted.
221Both the ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 standard position constant values and
222other formats (decimal, hexadecimal, or octal) are valid as encoding
223values within the charmap file.
224The
225.Ar codeset
226can be any codeset that is supported by the
227.Fn iconv_open 3
228function.
229.Pp
230When conflicts occur between the charmap specification of
231.Ar codeset ,
232.Em mb_cur_max ,
233or
234.Em mb_cur_min
235and the corresponding value for the codeset represented by the
236.Fl u
237option-argument
238.Ar codeset ,
239the
240.Nm
241utility fails with an error.
242.Pp
243When conflicts occur between the charmap encoding values specified for symbolic
244names of characters of the portable character set and the character encoding
245values defined by the US-ASCII, the result is unspecified.
246.Sh HISTORY
247.Nm
248first appeared in
249.Dx 4.3 .
250It was ported from Illumos from the point
251.An Garrett D'Amore
252.Aq Mt garrett@nexenta.com
253added multibyte support (October 2010).
254.An John Marino
255.Aq Mt draco@marino.st
256provided the alternations necessary to compile cleanly on
257.Dx .
258.An Baptiste Daroussin
259.Aq Mt bapt@FreeBSD.org
260converted it to
261.Xr tree 3 .
262