locale.alias(5) File Formats Manual locale.alias(5)
NAME
locale.alias - Locale name alias data base
DESCRIPTION
The locale.alias database file is used by the locale command and the X Window System It describes aliases for the locales, with each line
being of the form
<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 language name, 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 <mckinstry@computer.org>
Debian GNU/Linux January 2002 locale.alias(5)
