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locale.alias
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: January 2002
Index NAME
locale.alias - Locale name alias data base
DESCRIPTION
The locale.alias database file (/usr/share/locale/locale.alias) is used by the
localecommand and the
X Window SystemIt describes aliases for the locales, with each line being of theform
<alias> <localename>
Where <localename> is in the POSIX format: xx_YY.CHARSET.The first two letters 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 languagename, or simpler versions of the POSIX locale name.
Lines beginning with Hash ("#") are treated as comments and ignored.
SEE ALSO
locale(1),
localedef(1)
AUTHOR
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstryAATTcomputer.org>
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