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17 .TH locale.alias 5 "January 2002" "Debian GNU/Linux"
19 locale.alias \- Locale name alias data base
21 The locale.alias database file (/etc/locale.alias) is used by the
26 It describes aliases for the locales, with each line being of the
31 Where <localename> is in the POSIX format: xx_YY.CHARSET.
32 The first two letters \fIxx\fR are the ISO-639 Language code,
33 the next two \fIYY\fR are the ISO-3166 Country code,
34 and the Charset is one of the character sets (listed in
35 \fI/usr/share/i18n/charsets\fR
37 The aliases can be free text; they are normally the English language
38 name, or simpler versions of the POSIX locale name.
40 Lines beginning with Hash ("#") are treated as comments and ignored.
43 locale(1), localedef(1), locale-gen(8), locale.gen(5)
45 Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>