NAME

locale.alias - locale alias file

SYNOPSIS

locale.alias

DESCRIPTION

The locale.alias file describes locale aliases. Each line of this file can be described as the following BNF:
line                    :=      src ws dst
src                     :=      locale_name
                        |       locale_category_name
ws                      :=      <white spaces>
dst                     :=      locale_name
                        |       "/FORCE"
locale_category_name    :=      locale_name '/' category_name
category_name           :=      "LC_CTYPE"
                        |       "LC_COLLATE"
                        |       "LC_TIME"
                        |       "LC_NUMERIC"
                        |       "LC_MONETARY"
                        |       "LC_MESSAGES"
locale_name             :=      <locale name>

FILES

/usr/share/locale/locale.alias
This file.

EXAMPLES

ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE            en_US.UTF-8
This means that ``ja_JP.UTF-8'' for LC_CTYPE category is redirected to ``en_US.UTF-8''.
Pig                             /FORCE
This means that ``Pig'' for all categories is forcibly enabled.

SEE ALSO

locale(1), nls(7)

HISTORY

The locale.alias file appeared in NetBSD3.0.