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environ(5) environ(5)

4. If the LANG environment variable is not set or is set to the empty string, the POSIX/C

default locale is used. (See lang(5).)

LC_COLLATE

Determines the locale category for character collation. It determines collation information for

regular expressions and sorting, including equivalence classes and multi-character collating

elements, in various utilities and strcoll(3C) and strxfrm(3C) (see string(3C)).

LC_CTYPE Determines the locale category for character classiﬁcation (such as alphabetic, digit, upper-

case.) See isalpha(3C), isdigit(3C), and isupper(3C), character conversion in ctype(3C). See

toupper(3C), tolower(3C), and the interpretation of text as single-byte or multi-byte characters

in conv(3C).

LC_MESSAGES

Determines the locale category for processing afﬁrmative and negative responses and the

language and cultural conventions in which diagnostic and informative messages should be

written. It may also affect the behavior of catopen(3C) in determining the message catalog to

open.

LC_MONETARY

Determines the locale category for monetary-related numeric formatting information.

LC_NUMERIC

Determines the locale category for numeric formatting information (such as the thousands

separator and the radix character) in various utilities as well as the formatted I/O operations

in printf(3S) and scanf(3S) and the string conversion functions in strtod(3C).

LC_TIME Determines the locale category for date and time formatting information. It affects the

behavior of time functions in strftime(3C).

MANPATH Contains a colon-separated list of directory preﬁxes to be searched by man(1) for manual

entries. Upon logging in,

/etc/profile (or /etc/csh.login

) sets

MANPATH

=/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man:usr/local/man

. If the ﬁle

/etc/MANPATH exists, the default settings are taken from this ﬁle.

MANPATH uses the same syntax as the PATH

environment variable, with the addition of recog-

nizing the speciﬁers

%L, %l, %t, and %c as used in the NLSPATH

environment variable. See

NLSPATH below for a description of these speciﬁers. This provides a way to specify paths to

locale-speciﬁc manual entries.

It is assumed that each of the preﬁxes given in MANPATH

contain subdirectories of the form

man∗, man∗.Z, cat∗ and cat∗.Z. (See man(1), catman(1M), and ﬁxman(1M).)

NLSPATH Contains a sequence of pseudo-pathnames used by catopen(3C) when attempting to locate mes-

sage catalogs. Each pseudo-pathname contains a name template consisting of an optional path

preﬁx, one or more substitution ﬁeld descriptors, a ﬁle name and an optional ﬁle name sufﬁx.

For example:

NLSPATH="/system/nlslib/%N.cat"

deﬁnes that catopen(3C) should look for all message catalogs in the directory

/system/nlslib , where the catalog name should be constructed from the name parame-

ter passed to catopen (3C) (%N) with the sufﬁx

.cat.

Field descriptors consist of a % followed by a single character. Field descriptors and their sub-

stitution values are:

%N The value of the name parameter passed to catopen(3C).

%L The value of LC_MESSAGES.

%l The language element from LC_MESSAGES.

%t The territory element from LC_MESSAGES.

%c The codeset element from LC_MESSAGES.

%% Replaced by a single %.

For example, given:

NLSPATH="/system/nlslib/%L/%N.cat"

catopen(3C) attempts to open the ﬁle /system/nlslib/

$LC_MESSAGES/name.cat as a

message catalog.

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