HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

charmap(4) charmap(4)

The encoding is a character constant in one of three forms:

decimal An escape character followed by the letter

d, followed by one to three decimal digits.

octal An escape character followed by one to three octal digits.

hexadecimal An escape character followed by an

x, followed by two hexadecimal digits.

Multibyte characters are represented by the concatenation of character constants. All constants used in

the encoding of a multibyte character must be of the same form.

The second form deﬁnes a range of characters consisting of all characters from the ﬁrst symbolic name to

the second, inclusive:

<symbolic_name

>... <symbolic_name

> encoding

The symbolic name must consist of one or more nonnumeric characters followed by an integer formed of

one or more decimal digits. The integer part of the second symbolic name must be larger than that of the

ﬁrst. The range is then interpreted as a list of symbolic names consisting of the same character portion

and successive integer values from the ﬁrst through the last. These names are assigned successive encod-

ings starting with the one given.

For example, the character deﬁnition line

<C4>...<C6> \d129

is equivalent to:

<C4> \d129

<C5> \d130

<C6> \d131

EXAMPLES

For examples, see any of the ﬁles under /usr/lib/nls/loc/charmaps

directory.