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Manpages charmapSection: Linux User Manual (5)Updated: 1994-11-28 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEcharmap - character symbols to define character encodingsDESCRIPTIONA character set description (charmap) defines a characterset of available characters and their encodings. All supported character sets should have the portable character set as a proper subset.SYNTAXThe charmap file starts with a header, that may consist of the following keywords:
The charmap-definition itself starts with the keyword CHARMAP in column 1. The following lines may have one of the two following forms to define the character-encodings:
The last line in a charmap-definition file must contain END CHARMAP. SYMBOLIC NAMESA symbolic name for a character contains only characters of the portable character set. The name itself is enclosed between angle brackets. Characters following the <escape_char> are interpreted as itself; for example, the sequence '<\\\\\\>>' represents the symbolic name '\\>' enclosed in angle brackets.CHARACTER ENCODINGThe encoding may be in each of the following three forms:
FILES/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/*AUTHORJochen Hein (jochen.hein@delphi.central.de)CONFORMING TOPOSIX.2SEE ALSOlocale(1), localedef(1), setlocale(3), localeconv(3), locale(5)
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