.\" -*- nroff -*- .\" Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) .\" any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, .\" Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. .TH locale.alias 5 "January 2002" "Debian GNU/Linux" .SH "NAME" locale.alias \- Locale name alias data base .SH "DESCRIPTION" The locale.alias database file (/etc/locale.alias) is used by the .B locale command and the .B X Window System . It describes aliases for the locales, with each line being of the form Where is in the POSIX format: xx_YY.CHARSET. The first two letters \fIxx\fR are the ISO-639 Language code, the next two \fIYY\fR are the ISO-3166 Country code, and the Charset is one of the character sets (listed in \fI/usr/share/i18n/charsets\fR ). 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. .SH "SEE ALSO" locale(1), localedef(1), locale-gen(8), locale.gen(5) .SH "AUTHOR" Alastair McKinstry