July 22, 2004 LOCALE.ALIAS 5

### NAME

locale.alias - locale alias file

### SYNOPSIS

locale.alias

### DESCRIPTION

The locale.alias file describes locale aliases. Each line of this file can be described as the following BNF:

  `

      line                    :=      src ws dst
      src                     :=      locale_name
                              |       locale_category_name
      ws                      :=      <white spaces>
      dst                     :=      locale_name
                              |       "/FORCE"
      locale_category_name    :=      locale_name '/' category_name
      category_name           :=      "LC_CTYPE"
                              |       "LC_COLLATE"
                              |       "LC_TIME"
                              |       "LC_NUMERIC"
                              |       "LC_MONETARY"
                              |       "LC_MESSAGES"
      locale_name             :=      <locale name>

  `

### FILES

```/usr/share/locale/locale.alias`
  This file.

### EXAMPLES

  `

      ja_JP.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE            en_US.UTF-8

  `

This means that `````ja_JP.UTF-8`'' for ```LC_CTYPE` category is redirected to `````en_US.UTF-8`''.

  `

      Pig                             /FORCE

  `

This means that `````Pig`'' for all categories is forcibly enabled.

### SEE ALSO

locale(1), nls(7)

### HISTORY

The locale.alias file appeared in NetBSD3.0.