locale.alias(5) [suse man page]

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)

validlocale(8)															    validlocale(8)

NAME

       validlocale - Test if a given locale is available

SYNTAX

       validlocale <locale>

DESCRIPTION

       Test  if  the  locale  given  as  argument  is  a  valid locale.  If it isn't, print on stdout the string to add to /etc/locale.gen to make
       locale-gen generate the locale (if it exists at all).

FILES

       /usr/sbin/validlocale
       /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       DEFAULTCHARSET
	      Which charset to assume if the given locale is missing from the list of supported locales.

EXAMPLES

       If you give a valid locale as parameter, it outputs a string specifying this on stderr:

	      % validlocale C
	      locale 'C' valid and available

       When given a invalid (not generated or just nonexistent), it outputs a string on stderr telling that this  is  an  invalid  locale,  and  a
       string to stdout with the string to add to /etc/locale.gen to have this locale generated:

	      % validlocale de_AU@euro
	      locale 'de_AU@euro' not available
	      de_AU@euro ISO-8859-15

AUTHORS

       Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

SEE ALSO

       locale-gen(8), localedef(1), locale(1)

Petter Reinholdtsen							0.1							    validlocale(8)