NAME
mklocale
- make LC_CTYPE locale files
SYNOPSIS
mklocale
[-d]
[-t type]
<
source
>
language/LC_CTYPE
mklocale
[-d]
[-t type]
-o
language/LC_CTYPE
source
DESCRIPTION
The
mklocale
utility reads an
LC_CTYPE
source file from standard input and produces an
LC_CTYPE
binary file on standard output suitable for placement in
/usr/share/locale/<language>/LC_CTYPE
.
The format of
source
is quite simple.
It consists of a series of lines which start with a keyword and have
associated data following.
C style comments are used
to place comments in the file.
Following options are available:
- -d
-
Turns on debugging messages.
- -o
-
Specify output file.
- -t
-
Generate output in new-style LC_{MONETARY,NUMERIC,TIME,MESSAGES}
locale-db format.
Besides the keywords which will be listed below,
the following are valid tokens in
source:
RUNE
-
A
RUNE
may be any of the following:
- 'x'
-
The ASCII character
x.
- '\x'
-
The ANSI C character
\x
where
\x
is one of
\a
,
\b
,
\f
,
\n
,
\r
,
\t
,
or
\v
.
- 0x[0-9a-z]*
-
A hexadecimal number representing a rune code.
- 0[0-7]*
-
An octal number representing a rune code.
- [1-9][0-9]*
-
A decimal number representing a rune code.
STRING
-
A string enclosed in double quotes (").
THRU
-
Either
...
or
-
.
Used to indicate ranges.
- literal
-
The follow characters are taken literally:
<([
-
Used to start a mapping.
All are equivalent.
>)]
-
Used to end a mapping.
All are equivalent.
- :
Used as a delimiter in mappings.
Key words which should only appear once are:
ENCODING
-
Followed by a
STRING
which indicates the encoding mechanism to be used for this locale.
The current encodings are:
NONE
-
No translation and the default.
UTF2
-
Universal character set Transformation Format
adopted from
Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
EUC
-
EUC
encoding as used by several
vendors of
UNIX
systems.
VARIABLE
-
This keyword must be followed by a single tab or space character,
after which encoding specific data is placed.
Currently only the
EUC
encoding requires variable data.
INVALID
-
A single
RUNE
follows and is used as the invalid rune for this locale.
The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
format for data:
- <
RUNE1
RUNE2
> -
RUNE1
is mapped to
RUNE2
.
- <
RUNE1
THRU
RUNEn
: RUNE2
> -
Runes
RUNE1
through
RUNEn
are mapped to
RUNE2
through
RUNE2
+ n-1.
MAPLOWER
-
Defines the tolower mappings.
RUNE2
is the lower case representation of
RUNE1
.
MAPUPPER
-
Defines the toupper mappings.
RUNE2
is the upper case representation of
RUNE1
.
TODIGIT
-
Defines a map from runes to their digit value.
RUNE2
is the integer value represented by
RUNE1
.
For example, the ASCII character
`0'
would map to the decimal value 0.
Only values up to 255 are allowed.
The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
format for data:
RUNE
-
This rune has the property defined by the keyword.
RUNE1 THRU RUNEn
-
All the runes between and including
RUNE1
and
RUNEn
have the property defined by the keyword.
ALPHA
-
Defines runes which are alphabetic, printable, and graphic.
CONTROL
-
Defines runes which are control characters.
DIGIT
-
Defines runes which are decimal digits, printable, and graphic.
GRAPH
-
Defines runes which are graphic and printable.
LOWER
-
Defines runes which are lower case, printable, and graphic.
PUNCT
-
Defines runes which are punctuation, printable, and graphic.
SPACE
-
Defines runes which are spaces.
UPPER
-
Defines runes which are upper case, printable, and graphic.
XDIGIT
-
Defines runes which are hexadecimal digits, printable, and graphic.
BLANK
-
Defines runes which are blank.
PRINT
-
Defines runes which are printable.
IDEOGRAM
-
Defines runes which are ideograms, printable, and graphic.
SPECIAL
-
Defines runes which are special characters, printable, and graphic.
PHONOGRAM
-
Defines runes which are phonograms, printable, and graphic.
SWIDTHn
-
Defines runes with specific glyph width.
n
takes 0 to 3.
CHARSET
-
Controls character set for subsequent runes.
SEE ALSO
setlocale(3),
nls(7)
HISTORY
The
mklocale
utility first appeared in
4.4BSD.
BUGS
The
mklocale
utility is overly simplistic.
We should switch to
localedef
and its file format, which is more standard.