mklanginfo - compiles language information constants for a locale
mklanginfo [fname]
This program takes the file specified as an argument, and converts the input into a file suitable for placement in $TUXDIR/locale/xx/LANGINFO where xx is a specific locale. The standard input is used if a file argument is not specified.
mklanginfo reads input lines, ignoring lines that begin with white space or '#'. Value input lines must be of the form <token> = "value"
(the characters between the token and the double-quoted value can be anything but a double quote as long as white space appears after the token). If value is the null string, the line is ignored. Otherwise, token must either be a integer between 1 and 48, inclusive, or a string as follows:
Integer String Value
1 DAY_1 Day 1 of the week, e.g., Sunday
2 DAY_2 Day 2 of the week, e.g., Monday
3 DAY_3 Day 3 of the week, e.g., Tuesday
4 DAY_4 Day 4 of the week, e.g., Wednesday
5 DAY_5 Day 5 of the week, e.g., Thursday
6 DAY_6 Day 6 of the week, e.g., Friday
7 DAY_7 Day 7 of the week, e.g., Saturday
8 ABDAY_1 Abbreviated day 1 of the week, e.g., Sun
9 ABDAY_2 Abbreviated day 2 of the week, e.g., Mon
10 ABDAY_3 Abbreviated day 3 of the week, e.g., Tue
11 ABDAY_4 Abbreviated day 4 of the week, e.g., Wed
12 ABDAY_5 Abbreviated day 5 of the week, e.g., Thu
13 ABDAY_6 Abbreviated day 6 of the week, e.g., Fri
14 ABDAY_7 Abbreviated day 7 of the week, e.g., Sat
15 MON_1 Month 1 of the year, e.g., January
16 MON_2 Month 2 of the year, e.g., February
17 MON_3 Month 3 of the year, e.g., March
18 MON_4 Month 4 of the year, e.g., April
19 MON_5 Month 5 of the year, e.g., May
20 MON_6 Month 6 of the year, e.g., June
21 MON_7 Month 7 of the year, e.g., July
22 MON_8 Month 8 of the year, e.g., August
23 MON_9 Month 9 of the year, e.g., September
24 MON_10 Month 10 of the year, e.g., October
25 MON_11 Month 11 of the year, e.g., November
26 MON_12 Month 12 of the year, e.g., December
27 ABMON_1 Abbreviated month 1 of the year, e.g., Jan
28 ABMON_2 Abbreviated month 2 of the year, e.g., Feb
29 ABMON_3 Abbreviated month 3 of the year, e.g., Mar
30 ABMON_4 Abbreviated month 4 of the year, e.g., Apr
31 ABMON_5 Abbreviated month 5 of the year, e.g., May
32 ABMON_6 Abbreviated month 6 of the year, e.g., Jun
33 ABMON_7 Abbreviated month 7 of the year, e.g., Jul
34 ABMON_8 Abbreviated month 8 of the year, e.g., Aug
35 ABMON_9 Abbreviated month 9 of the year, e.g., Sep
36 ABMON_10 Abbreviated month 10 of the year, e.g., Oct
37 ABMON_11 Abbreviated month 11 of the year, e.g., Nov
38 ABMON_12 Abbreviated month 12 of the year, e.g., Dec
39 RADIXCHAR Radix character, e.g., '.'
40 THOUSEP Separator for thousands
41 YESSTR Affirmative response string, e.g., yes
42 NOSTR Negative response string, e.g., no
43 CRNCYSTR Currency symbol
44 D_T_FMT string for formatting date and time,
e.g., "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
45 D_FMT string for formatting date, e.g., "%m/%d/%y"
46 T_FMT string for formatting time, e.g., "H:%M:%S"
47 AM_FMT Ante Meridian affix, e.g., AM
48 PM_FMT Post Meridian affix, e.g., PM
The input lines may appear in any order (if an input line appears more than once for the same value, the last line for that value is used).
After processing the file, mklanginfo prints the string name and string value for each language information constant listed above to the standard error in the order specified above. The null string is used as a value for any language information constant not specified; nl_langinfo will use the default value for the C locale (U.S. English values) for these unset constants.
If a file name is specified on the command name, mklanginfo writes the "compiled" output to fname.out; otherwise, the output is written to the standard output. The format is a list of all of the null-terminated string values (without newlines).
If an error occurs in reading the file or in the syntax, an error message is printed to the standard error and the program exits with exit code 1. On success, the program exits with exit code 0.
The default values for the TUXEDO System (locale C) are located in $TUXDIR/locale/C/lang.text. To provide French values, an administrator might do the following:
mkdir $TUXDIR/locale/french cd $TUXDIR/locale/french cp $TUXDIR/locale/C/lang.text . ed lang.text ... convert to French values w q mklanginfo < lang.text > LANGINFO
$TUXDIR/locale/C/lang.text - the default values for the C locale $TUXDIR/locale/C/LANGINFO - the "compiled" file for the C locale $TUXDIR/locale/xx/LANGINFO - the "compiled" file for the "xx" locale
The mklanginfo command and the resulting LANGINFO file are needed only if the TUXEDO System compatibility functions for setlocale(), strftime(), or nl_langinfo() are used. The functions provided with the UNIX System use a different set and format of files.
langinfo(5), nltypes(5)