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locale and glibc and charset

what's the relationship among locale, glibc, charset, charmap and fonts?
why locale needs to be generated by glibc? how?
what are in the locale-archive file?
and what are in font files?

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bterm(1)						      General Commands Manual							  bterm(1)

NAME
bterm - framebuffer terminal emulator SYNOPSIS
bterm -f font.bgf [-l locale] [program] DESCRIPTION
bterm is a terminal emulator for the Linux framebuffer. It supports multibyte locales and wide characters, in addition to basic terminal features such as cursor positioning. OPTIONS
-f font.bgf Specify the font. BGF fonts are produced by bdftobogl(1) from standard BDF font files. -l locale Specify a locale for bterm and processes run within it. The locale may also be specified normally in the environment. If a locale, especially one with a different character set than the current locale, will be used inside of bterm, it should be specified on the command line. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 1-125 Exit code from executed program 127 Failed to exec program >=128 Program terminated by signal. NOTES
On Debian systems, one appropriate BDF font can be found in the bf-utf-source package. SEE ALSO
bdftobogl(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>. BOGL
31 March 2002 bterm(1)