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nlsinfo(1) nlsinfo(1)
NAME
nlsinfo - display native language support information
SYNOPSIS
nlsinfo [-acfhilmnstC] [-d n] [-e n] [-o n] [-r n1 n2] [-L language]
Remarks:
nlsinfo is provided for historical reasons only. Use locale instead
(see locale(1)).
DESCRIPTION
nlsinfo displays a list of installed Native Language Support (NLS)
international environment languages, and displays information
contained within the runtime locale associated with these languages
(see setlocale(3C)). Commands and routines modified for NLS operation
(see EXTERNAL INFLUENCES section in applicable manual entries) use the
information contained within locales to process and display data
according to the local language and customs of a user (see hpnls(5)).
Unless overridden by the -L option, the runtime locale is determined
by the locale category environment variables (those that begin with
LC_) and the LANG environment variable.
By default, non-printable characters are displayed as 2-digit
hexadecimal numbers unless they are included within strings, in which
case the hexadecimal numbers are preceded by \x.
Options
The following options are recognized:
-l Display the list of installed international
environment languages.
-a Display the LC_ALL locale category which contains
all parts of the selected locale. Equivalent to
specifying options -csntmh.
-c Display the LC_CTYPE locale category that contains
character classification and conversion
information (see ctype(3C), conv(3C), and
nl_tools_16(3C)).
-s Display the LC_COLLATE locale category that
contains collating (sorting) information (see
strcoll(3C) and strxfrm(3C)).
-n Display the LC_NUMERIC locale category which
contains information regarding the radix character
and thousands separator.
-t Display the LC_TIME locale category which contains
such information as the format of the date and
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time and the names of the days of the week (see
strftime(3C)).
-m Display the LC_MONETARY locale category which
contains information for the formatting of
monetary quantities.
-h Display all other local custom information not
included in the LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, and
LC_MONETARY locale categories.
-i Display a list of abbreviated "from" and "to" code
set names used by iconv the code set conversion
utility (see iconv(1)). Each "from" and "to" code
set name pair represents a conversion supported by
iconv.
-C Display all the characters defined in the selected
NLS environment's code set. The list of
characters may be quite long for some Asian NLS
environments.
If none of the options l, a, c, s, n, t, m, h, i, or C is
specified, -l is used as a default.
-f Place a form feed character before all category
display headings.
-o n Display non-printable characters as numbers using
the base specified by n. If n is o, display non-
printable characters as 3-digit octal numbers. If
n is x, display non-printable characters as 2-
digit hex numbers. If non-printable characters
are included within strings, the octal or hex
numbers are preceded by a backslash (\).
-e n Display all characters (including printable
characters) as hexadecimal or octal numbers. If n
is o, display characters as 3-digit octal numbers.
If n is x, display characters as 2-digit hex
numbers. If characters are included within
strings, the octal or hex numbers are preceded by
a backslash (\).
-d n Display n lines between headings. By default 16
lines are displayed between headings.
-r n1 n2 Display information only about element number n1
through element number n2 of the requested
table(s), rather than all elements of each table.
The parameters n1 and n2 can be hexadecimal
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(preceded by 0x), octal (preceded by 0), or
decimal numbers. These parameters can also be
characters, in which case each character is mapped
to its value in the code set of the user's current
locale (not the locale, if any, specified via the
-L option). Characters that are digits should be
quoted with the backslash character (\) to prevent
them from being interpreted as numbers.
-L language Display information about the locale associated
with language instead of the locale specified by
the setlocale category and LANG environment
variables. The parameter language should be one
of the language names from the output of nlsinfo
-l (ell) (the valid language names are also given
in lang(5)).
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
The LC_CTYPE environment variable determines how option argument
characters are mapped to a value in the code set.
The LANG environment variable determines the language in which
messages and headings are displayed.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte-character code sets are supported with the
exception of multi-byte-character file names.
WARNINGS
The format and content of the display of a particular table may change
if the underlying NLS implementation is changed to support new
features. Applications should not use the information displayed by
nlsinfo as the basis for their operation, but rather should use the
interface routines provided in LIBC (see conv(3C), ctype(3C),
langinfo(3C), nl_tools_16(3C), setlocale(3C), string(3C) and
buildlang(1M)).
AUTHOR
nlsinfo was developed by HP.
FILES
/usr/lib/nls/config
/usr/lib/nls/$LANG/locale.def
SEE ALSO
buildlang(1M), iconv(1), conv(3C), ctype(3C), langinfo(3C),
nl_tools_16(3C), setlocale(3C), string(3C), environ(5), hpnls(5),
lang(5).
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