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mklocale(1)

NAME

     mklocale -- make LC_CTYPE locale files

SYNOPSIS

     mklocale [-d] < src-file > language/LC_CTYPE
     mklocale [-d] -o language/LC_CTYPE src-file

DESCRIPTION

     The mklocale utility reads a LC_CTYPE source file from standard input and
     produces a LC_CTYPE binary file on standard output suitable for placement
     in /usr/share/locale/language/LC_CTYPE.

     The format of 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.

     Following options are available:

     -d      Turns on debugging messages.

     -o      Specify output file.

     Besides the keywords which will be listed below, the following are valid
     tokens in src-file:

     RUNE     A RUNE may be any of the following:

	      'x'	   The ASCII character x.

	      '\x'	   The ANSI C character \x where \x is one of \a, \b,
			   \f, \n, \r, \t, or \v.

	      0x[0-9a-z]*  A hexadecimal number representing a rune code.

	      0[0-7]*	   An octal number representing a rune code.

	      [1-9][0-9]*  A decimal number representing a rune code.

     STRING   A string enclosed in double quotes (").

     THRU     Either ... or -.	Used to indicate ranges.

     literal  The follow characters are taken literally:

	      <([  Used to start a mapping.  All are equivalent.

	      >)]  Used to end a mapping.  All are equivalent.

	      :    Used as a delimiter in mappings.

     Key words which should only appear once are:

     ENCODING	Followed by a STRING which indicates the encoding mechanism to
		be used for this locale.  The current encodings are:

		BIG5	 The ``Big5'' encoding of Chinese.

		GBK	 A widely used encoding method for Chinese text, back-
			 wards compatible with GB 2312-1980.

		MSKanji  The method of encoding Japanese used by Microsoft,
			 loosely based on JIS.	Also known as ``Shift JIS''
			 and ``SJIS''.

		NONE	 No translation and the default.

		UTF2	 (deprecated) ``Universal character set Transformation
			 Format'' adopted from Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

		UTF-8	 The UTF-8 transformation format of ISO 10646 as
			 defined by RFC 2279.

     VARIABLE	This keyword must be followed by a single tab or space charac-
		ter, after which encoding specific data is placed.  Currently
		only the EUC encoding requires variable data.  See euc(4) for
		further details.

     INVALID	(deprecated) A single RUNE follows and is used as the invalid
		rune for this locale.

     The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
     format for data:

	   <RUNE1 RUNE2>	      RUNE1 is mapped to RUNE2.

	   <RUNE1 THRU RUNEn: RUNE2>  Runes RUNE1 through RUNEn are mapped to
				      RUNE2 through RUNE2 + n-1.

     MAPLOWER	Defines the tolower mappings.  RUNE2 is the lower case repre-
		sentation of RUNE1.

     MAPUPPER	Defines the toupper mappings.  RUNE2 is the upper case repre-
		sentation of RUNE1.

     TODIGIT	Defines a map from runes to their digit value.	RUNE2 is the
		integer value represented by RUNE1.  For example, the ASCII
		character `0' would map to the decimal value 0.  Only values
		up to 255 are allowed.

     The following keywords may appear multiple times and have the following
     format for data:

	   RUNE 	     This rune has the property defined by the key-
			     word.

	   RUNE1 THRU RUNEn  All the runes between and including RUNE1 and
			     RUNEn have the property defined by the keyword.

     ALPHA	Defines runes which are alphabetic, printable and graphic.

     CONTROL	Defines runes which are control characters.

     DIGIT	Defines runes which are decimal digits, printable and graphic.

     GRAPH	Defines runes which are graphic and printable.

     XDIGIT	Defines runes which are hexadecimal digits, printable and
		graphic.

     BLANK	Defines runes which are blank.

     PRINT	Defines runes which are printable.

     IDEOGRAM	Defines runes which are ideograms, printable and graphic.

     SPECIAL	Defines runes which are special characters, printable and
		graphic.

     PHONOGRAM	Defines runes which are phonograms, printable and graphic.

     SWIDTH0	Defines runes with display width 0.

     SWIDTH1	Defines runes with display width 1.

     SWIDTH2	Defines runes with display width 2.

     SWIDTH3	Defines runes with display width 3.

     If no display width explicitly defined, width 1 assumed for printable
     runes by default.

SEE ALSO

     colldef(1), mbrune(3), rune(3), setlocale(3), wcwidth(3), big5(5),
     euc(5), gb18030(5), gb2312(5), gbk(5), mskanji(5), utf2(5), utf8(5)

BUGS

     The mklocale utility is overly simplistic.

HISTORY

     The mklocale utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

FreeBSD 5.4		       November 8, 2003 		   FreeBSD 5.4

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