is followed by a character that should be used as the escape-character for the rest of the file to mark characters that should be interpreted in a special way. It defaults to the backslash (\).

is followed by a character that will be used as the comment-character for the rest of the file. It defaults to the number sign (#).

followed by a string containing field descriptors that define the format used for postal addresses in the locale. The following field descriptors are recognized:

followed by the country name in the language of the current document (e.g., "Deutschland" for the de_DE locale).

followed by the abbreviation of the country (see CERT_MAILCODES).

followed by the two-letter abbreviation of the country (ISO 3166).

followed by the three-letter abbreviation of the country (ISO 3166).

followed by the numeric country code as plain numbers (ISO 3166).

followed by the international licence plate country code.

followed by the ISBN code (for books).

followed by the language name in the language of the current document.

followed by the two-letter abbreviation of the language (ISO 639).

followed by the three-letter abbreviation of the language (ISO 639-2/T).

followed by the three-letter abbreviation of the language for library use (ISO 639-2/B). Applications should in general prefer lang_term over lang_lib.

followed by a list of uppercase letters. The letters A through Z are included automatically. Characters also specified as cntrl, digit, punct, or space are not allowed.

followed by a list of lowercase letters. The letters a through z are included automatically. Characters also specified as cntrl, digit, punct, or space are not allowed.

followed by a list of letters. All character specified as either upper or lower are automatically included. Characters also specified as cntrl, digit, punct, or space are not allowed.

followed by the characters classified as numeric digits. Only the digits 0 through 9 are allowed. They are included by default in this class.

followed by a list of characters defined as white-space characters. Characters also specified as upper, lower, alpha, digit, graph, or xdigit are not allowed. The characters <space>, <form-feed>, <newline>, <carriage-return>, <tab>, and <vertical-tab> are automatically included.

followed by a list of control characters. Characters also specified as upper, lower, alpha, digit, punct, graph, print, or xdigit are not allowed.

followed by a list of punctuation characters. Characters also specified as upper, lower, alpha, digit, cntrl, xdigit, or the <space> character are not allowed.

followed by a list of printable characters, not including the <space> character. The characters defined as upper, lower, alpha, digit, xdigit, and punct are automatically included. Characters also specified as cntrl are not allowed.

followed by a list of printable characters, including the <space> character. The characters defined as upper, lower, alpha, digit, xdigit, punct, and the <space> character are automatically included. Characters also specified as cntrl are not allowed.

followed by a list of characters classified as hexadecimal digits. The decimal digits must be included followed by one or more set of six characters in ascending order. The following characters are included by default: 0 through 9, a through f, A through F.

followed by a list of characters classified as blank. The characters <space> and <tab> are automatically included.

followed by a list of locale-specific character class names which are then to be defined in the locale.

followed by a list of mappings from lowercase to uppercase letters. Each mapping is a pair of a lowercase and an uppercase letter separated with a , and enclosed in parentheses. The members of the list are separated with semicolons.

followed by a list of mappings from uppercase to lowercase letters. If the keyword tolower is not present, the reverse of the toupper list is used.

followed by a list of mapping pairs of characters and letters to be used in titles (headings).

followed by a locale-specific character class definition, starting with the class name followed by the characters belonging to the class.

followed by a list of locale-specific character mapping names which are then to be defined in the locale.

followed by a list of alternate output digits for the locale.

followed by a list of mapping pairs of alternate digits and separators for input digits for the locale.

followed by a list of mapping pairs of alternate separators for output for the locale.

marks the start of the transliteration rules section. The section can contain the include keyword in the beginning followed by locale-specific rules and overrides. Any rule specified in the locale file will override any rule copied or included from other files. In case of duplicate rule definitions in the locale file, only the first rule is used.

A transliteration rule consist of a character to be transliterated followed by a list of transliteration targets separated by semicolons. The first target which can be presented in the target character set is used, if none of them can be used the default_missing character will be used instead.

in the transliteration rules section includes a transliteration rule file (and optionally a repertoire map file).

in the transliteration rules section defines the default character to be used for transliteration where none of the targets cannot be presented in the target character set.

marks the end of the transliteration rules.

followed by the number representing used collation levels. This keyword is recognized but ignored by glibc.

followed by the definition of a collating-element symbol representing a multicharacter collating element.

followed by the definition of a collating symbol that can be used in collation order statements.

followed by string to be evaluated in an ifdef string / else / endif construct.

followed by a redefinition of a collation rule.

marks the end of the redefinition of a collation rule.

followed by a script name to reorder listed scripts after.

marks the end of the reordering of sections.

followed by a declaration of a script.

followed by a collating-symbol to be equivalent to another defined collating-symbol.

followed by a list of keywords chosen from forward, backward, or position. The order definition consists of lines that describe the collation order and is terminated with the keyword order_end.

followed by the title of the locale document (e.g., "Maori language locale for New Zealand").

followed by the name of the organization that maintains this document.

followed by the address of the organization that maintains this document.

followed by the name of the contact person at the organization that maintains this document.

followed by the email address of the person or organization that maintains this document.

followed by the telephone number (in international format) of the organization that maintains this document. As of glibc 2.24, this keyword is deprecated in favor of other contact methods.

followed by the fax number (in international format) of the organization that maintains this document. As of glibc 2.24, this keyword is deprecated in favor of other contact methods.

followed by the name of the language to which this document applies.

followed by the name of the country/geographic extent to which this document applies.

followed by a description of the audience for which this document is intended.

followed by a description of any special application for which this document is intended.

followed by the short name for provider of the source of this document.

followed by the revision number of this document.

followed by the revision date of this document.

followed by a regular expression that describes possible yes-responses.

followed by a regular expression that describes possible no-responses.

followed by the output string corresponding to "yes".

followed by the output string corresponding to "no".

followed by number identifying the standard used for measurement. The following values are recognized:

followed by the international currency symbol. This must be a 4-character string containing the international currency symbol as defined by the ISO 4217 standard (three characters) followed by a separator.

followed by the local currency symbol.

followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter when formatting monetary quantities.

followed by the string that will be used as a group separator when formatting monetary quantities.

followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons that describe the formatting of monetary quantities. See grouping below for details.

followed by a string that is used to indicate a positive sign for monetary quantities.

followed by a string that is used to indicate a negative sign for monetary quantities.

followed by the number of fractional digits that should be used when formatting with the int_curr_symbol.

followed by the number of fractional digits that should be used when formatting with the currency_symbol.

followed by an integer that indicates the placement of currency_symbol for a nonnegative formatted monetary quantity:

followed by an integer that indicates the separation of currency_symbol, the sign string, and the value for a nonnegative formatted monetary quantity. The following values are recognized:

followed by an integer that indicates the placement of currency_symbol for a negative formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_cs_precedes.

followed by an integer that indicates the separation of currency_symbol, the sign string, and the value for a negative formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sep_by_space.

followed by an integer that indicates where the positive_sign should be placed for a nonnegative monetary quantity:

followed by an integer that indicates where the negative_sign should be placed for a negative monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sign_posn.

followed by an integer that indicates the placement of int_curr_symbol for a nonnegative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_cs_precedes.

followed by an integer that indicates the placement of int_curr_symbol for a negative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_cs_precedes.

followed by an integer that indicates the separation of int_curr_symbol, the sign string, and the value for a nonnegative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sep_by_space.

followed by an integer that indicates the separation of int_curr_symbol, the sign string, and the value for a negative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sep_by_space.

followed by an integer that indicates where the positive_sign should be placed for a nonnegative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sign_posn.

followed by an integer that indicates where the negative_sign should be placed for a negative internationally formatted monetary quantity. The same values are recognized as for p_sign_posn.

followed by a string containing field descriptors that define the format used for names in the locale. The following field descriptors are recognized:

followed by the general salutation for any gender.

followed by the salutation for men.

followed by the salutation for married women.

followed by the salutation for unmarried women.

followed by the salutation valid for all women.

followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter when formatting numeric quantities.

followed by the string that will be used as a group separator when formatting numeric quantities.

followed by a sequence of integers as plain numbers separated by semicolons that describe the formatting of numeric quantities.

Each integer specifies the number of digits in a group. The first integer defines the size of the group immediately to the left of the decimal delimiter. Subsequent integers define succeeding groups to the left of the previous group. If the last integer is not −1, then the size of the previous group (if any) is repeatedly used for the remainder of the digits. If the last integer is −1, then no further grouping is performed.

followed by the height, in millimeters, of the standard paper format.

followed by the width, in millimeters, of the standard paper format.

followed by a string that contains field descriptors that identify the format used to dial international numbers. The following field descriptors are recognized:

followed by a string that contains field descriptors that identify the format used to dial domestic numbers. The recognized field descriptors are the same as for tel_int_fmt.

followed by the prefix used to call international phone numbers.

followed by the prefix used from other countries to dial this country.

followed by a list of abbreviated names of the days of the week. The list starts with the first day of the week as specified by week (Sunday by default). See NOTES.

followed by a list of names of the days of the week. The list starts with the first day of the week as specified by week (Sunday by default). See NOTES.

followed by a list of abbreviated month names.

followed by a list of month names.

followed by the appropriate date and time format (for syntax, see strftime(3)).

followed by the appropriate date format (for syntax, see strftime(3)).

followed by the appropriate time format (for syntax, see strftime(3)).

followed by the appropriate representation of the am and pm strings. This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention.

followed by the appropriate time format (for syntax, see strftime(3)) when using 12h clock format. This should be left empty for locales not using AM/PM convention.

followed by semicolon-separated strings that define how years are counted and displayed for each era in the locale. Each string has the following format:

followed by the format of the date in alternative era notation, corresponding to the %Ex descriptor (see strptime(3)).

followed by the format of the time in alternative era notation, corresponding to the %EX descriptor (see strptime(3)).

followed by the format of the date and time in alternative era notation, corresponding to the %Ec descriptor (see strptime(3)).

followed by the alternative digits used for date and time in the locale.

followed by a list of three values as plain numbers: The number of days in a week (by default 7), a date of beginning of the week (by default corresponds to Sunday), and the minimal length of the first week in year (by default 4). Regarding the start of the week, 19971130 shall be used for Sunday and 19971201 shall be used for Monday. See NOTES.

followed by the number of the first day from the day list to be shown in calendar applications. The default value of 1 (plain number) corresponds to either Sunday or Monday depending on the value of the second week list item. See NOTES.

followed by the number of the first working day from the day list. The default value is 2 (plain number). See NOTES.

followed by a plain number value that indicates the direction for the display of calendar dates, as follows:

followed by the appropriate date representation for date(1) (for syntax, see strftime(3)).