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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/locale/locale.1 | 32 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/locale/locale.1 b/usr.bin/locale/locale.1 index 4ae8701b072..53e4f6e260f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/locale/locale.1 +++ b/usr.bin/locale/locale.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: locale.1,v 1.6 2016/10/24 13:27:06 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: locale.1,v 1.7 2016/10/26 01:00:27 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 2016 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright 2013 Stefan Sperling <stsp@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 24 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 26 2016 $ .Dt LOCALE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -25,15 +25,6 @@ .Nm locale .Op Fl a | Fl m .Sh DESCRIPTION -A locale is a set of environment variables telling programs which -character encoding, language and cultural conventions the user -prefers. -The only non-default setting recommended for -.Ox -is: -.Pp -.Dl export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 -.Pp If the .Nm utility is invoked without any arguments, the current locale @@ -50,9 +41,17 @@ On this always returns UTF-8 only. .El .Pp +A locale is a set of environment variables telling programs which +character encoding, language and cultural conventions the user +prefers. Programs in the .Ox -base system ignore the locale except for the character encoding. +base system ignore the locale except for the character encoding, +and it is not recommended to use any of these variables except that +the following non-default setting is supported as an option: +.Pp +.Dl export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 +.Pp Programs installed from .Xr packages 7 may or may not change behavior according to the locale. @@ -86,12 +85,15 @@ base system supports two locales: the default of .Li LC_CTYPE=C selects the US-ASCII character set and encoding, treating the bytes 0x80 to 0xff as non-printable characters of application-specific -meaning, whereas -.Li LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 -selects the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set. +meaning. .Li LC_CTYPE=POSIX is an alias for .Li LC_CTYPE=C . +The alternative of +.Li LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 +selects the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set, which is +supported by many parts of the system, but not yet fully supported +by all parts. .Pp If the value of .Ev LC_CTYPE |