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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-08-07 10:06:26 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-08-07 10:06:26 +0000
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mklocale tool, from NetBSD/citrus, not yet linked in.
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+.\" $NetBSD: mklocale.1,v 1.13 2004/01/24 17:03:26 wiz Exp $
+.\" FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/mklocale/mklocale.1,v 1.6 1999/09/20 09:15:21 phantom Exp
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" Paul Borman at Krystal Technologies.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)mklocale.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
+.\"
+.Dd April 18, 1994
+.Dt MKLOCALE 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mklocale
+.Nd make LC_CTYPE locale files
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm mklocale
+.Op Fl d
+\*[Lt]
+.Ar src-file
+\*[Gt]
+.Ar language/LC_CTYPE
+.Nm mklocale
+.Op Fl d
+.Fl o
+.Ar language/LC_CTYPE
+.Ar src-file
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm mklocale
+utility reads an
+.Dv LC_CTYPE
+source file from standard input and produces an
+.Dv LC_CTYPE
+binary file on standard output suitable for placement in
+.Pa /usr/share/locale/\*[Lt]language\*[Gt]/LC_CTYPE .
+.Pp
+The format of
+.Ar src-file
+is quite simple.
+It consists of a series of lines which start with a keyword and have
+associated data following.
+C style comments are used
+to place comments in the file.
+.Pp
+Following options are available:
+.Bl -tag -width XXX
+.It Fl d
+Turns on debugging messages.
+.It Fl o
+Specify output file.
+.El
+.Pp
+Besides the keywords which will be listed below,
+the following are valid tokens in
+.Ar src-file :
+.Bl -tag -width literal
+.It Dv RUNE
+A
+.Dv RUNE
+may be any of the following:
+.Bl -tag -width 0x[0-9a-z]*
+.It Ar 'x'
+The ASCII character
+.Ar x .
+.It Ar '\ex'
+The ANSI C character
+.Ar \ex
+where
+.Ar \ex
+is one of
+.Dv \ea ,
+.Dv \eb ,
+.Dv \ef ,
+.Dv \en ,
+.Dv \er ,
+.Dv \et ,
+or
+.Dv \ev .
+.It Ar 0x[0-9a-z]*
+A hexadecimal number representing a rune code.
+.It Ar 0[0-7]*
+An octal number representing a rune code.
+.It Ar [1-9][0-9]*
+A decimal number representing a rune code.
+.El
+.It Dv STRING
+A string enclosed in double quotes (").
+.It Dv THRU
+Either
+.Dv ...
+or
+.Dv - .
+Used to indicate ranges.
+.It Ar literal
+The follow characters are taken literally:
+.Bl -tag -width "\*[Lt]\|\|(\|\|["
+.It Dv "\*[Lt]\|(\|["
+Used to start a mapping.
+All are equivalent.
+.It Dv "\*[Gt]\|\^)\|]"
+Used to end a mapping.
+All are equivalent.
+.It Dv :
+Used as a delimiter in mappings.
+.El
+.El
+.Pp
+Key words which should only appear once are:
+.Bl -tag -width PHONOGRAM
+.It Dv ENCODING
+Followed by a
+.Dv STRING
+which indicates the encoding mechanism to be used for this locale.
+The current encodings are:
+.Bl -tag -width NONE
+.It Dv NONE
+No translation and the default.
+.It Dv UTF2
+.Dv "Universal character set Transformation Format"
+adopted from
+.Nm "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" .
+.It Dv EUC
+.Dv EUC
+encoding as used by several
+vendors of
+.Ux
+systems.
+.El
+.It Dv VARIABLE
+This keyword must be followed by a single tab or space character,
+after which encoding specific data is placed.
+Currently only the
+.Dv "EUC"
+encoding requires variable data.
+.\" See
+.\" .Xr euc 4
+.\" for further details.
+.It Dv INVALID
+A single
+.Dv RUNE
+follows and is used as the invalid rune for this locale.
+.El
+.Pp
+The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
+format for data:
+.in +.5i
+.Bl -tag -width "XXRUNE1 THRU RUNEn : RUNE2XX"
+.It Aq Dv RUNE1 RUNE2
+.Dv RUNE1
+is mapped to
+.Dv RUNE2 .
+.It Aq Dv RUNE1 THRU RUNEn : RUNE2
+Runes
+.Dv RUNE1
+through
+.Dv RUNEn
+are mapped to
+.Dv RUNE2
+through
+.Dv RUNE2
++ n-1.
+.El
+.in -.5i
+.Bl -tag -width PHONOGRAM
+.It Dv MAPLOWER
+Defines the tolower mappings.
+.Dv RUNE2
+is the lower case representation of
+.Dv RUNE1 .
+.It Dv MAPUPPER
+Defines the toupper mappings.
+.Dv RUNE2
+is the upper case representation of
+.Dv RUNE1 .
+.It Dv TODIGIT
+Defines a map from runes to their digit value.
+.Dv RUNE2
+is the integer value represented by
+.Dv RUNE1 .
+For example, the ASCII character
+.Sq 0
+would map to the decimal value 0.
+Only values up to 255 are allowed.
+.El
+.Pp
+The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
+format for data:
+.Bl -tag -width "RUNE1 THRU RUNEn"
+.It Dv RUNE
+This rune has the property defined by the keyword.
+.It Dv "RUNE1 THRU RUNEn"
+All the runes between and including
+.Dv RUNE1
+and
+.Dv RUNEn
+have the property defined by the keyword.
+.El
+.Bl -tag -width PHONOGRAM
+.It Dv ALPHA
+Defines runes which are alphabetic, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv CONTROL
+Defines runes which are control characters.
+.It Dv DIGIT
+Defines runes which are decimal digits, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv GRAPH
+Defines runes which are graphic and printable.
+.It Dv LOWER
+Defines runes which are lower case, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv PUNCT
+Defines runes which are punctuation, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv SPACE
+Defines runes which are spaces.
+.It Dv UPPER
+Defines runes which are upper case, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv XDIGIT
+Defines runes which are hexadecimal digits, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv BLANK
+Defines runes which are blank.
+.It Dv PRINT
+Defines runes which are printable.
+.It Dv IDEOGRAM
+Defines runes which are ideograms, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv SPECIAL
+Defines runes which are special characters, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv PHONOGRAM
+Defines runes which are phonograms, printable, and graphic.
+.It Dv SWIDTHn
+Defines runes with specific glyph width.
+.Ar n
+takes 0 to 3.
+.It Dv CHARSET
+Controls character set for subsequent runes.
+.\" To support
+.\" .Xr iso2022 4
+.\" locale definitions.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.\"Xr colldef 1 ,
+.Xr setlocale 3 ,
+.\" .Xr euc 4 ,
+.\" .Xr utf8 4
+.Xr nls 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm mklocale
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Nm mklocale
+utility is overly simplistic.
+.Pp
+We should switch to
+.Nm localedef
+and its file format, which is more standard.