[File] locale.alias

I didn't use to know why I would use it, when I got in trouble with characters such as showing wrong characters instead of Korean on the console.

Solutions

$> export LANG=ko_KR.eucKR
$> cat /usr/share/locale/locale.alias

...

ja_JP.ujis      ja_JP.eucJP

japanese.sjis   ja_JP.SJIS

korean          ko_KR.eucKR

korean.euc      ko_KR.eucKR

ko_KR           ko_KR.eucKR

lithuanian      lt_LT.ISO-8859-13

norwegian       nb_NO.ISO-8859-1

nynorsk         nn_NO.ISO-8859-1

polish          pl_PL.ISO-8859-2

...

Name

locale.alias - Locale name alias data base

Description

The locale.alias database file (/etc/locale.alias) is used by the locale command and the X Window System It describes aliases for the locales, with each line being of the form   <alias> <localename>

Where <localename> is in the POSIX format:

xx_YY.CHARSET.

 - The first two letters xx are the ISO-639 Language code,
the next two YY are the ISO-3166 Country code,  

and the Charset is one of the character sets (listed in /usr/share/i18n/charsets ).

The aliases can be free text; they are normally the English language name, or simpler versions of the POSIX locale name.

Lines beginning with Hash ("#") are treated as comments and ignored.

Do it!

$>cat /usr/share/locale/locale.alias

Related Links

• http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/locale.alias.5
  

• http://fallacy.pe.kr/307 : charset, output.