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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2003-04-12 05:20:15 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2003-04-12 05:20:15 +0000
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Add terse descriptions for NLSPATH and LC_*.
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/environ.7 b/share/man/man7/environ.7
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--- a/share/man/man7/environ.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/environ.7
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)environ.7 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 19, 1994
+.Dd April 12, 2003
.Dt ENVIRON 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ is made available by
when a process begins. By convention these strings have the form
.Dq Ar name=value .
The following names are used by various commands:
-.Bl -tag -width BLOCKSIZE
+.Bl -tag -width LC_MONETARY
.It Ev BLOCKSIZE
The size of the block units used by several commands, most notably
.Xr df 1 ,
@@ -88,6 +88,32 @@ from the password file
This variable configures all programs which use
.Xr setlocale 3
to use the specified locale.
+.It Ev LC_ALL
+Overrides the values of
+.Ev LC_COLLATE ,
+.Ev LC_CTYPE ,
+.Ev LC_MESSAGES ,
+.Ev LC_MONETARY ,
+.Ev LC_NUMERIC
+and
+.Ev LC_TIME .
+.It Ev LC_COLLATE
+Locale to be used for ordering of strings.
+.It Ev LC_CTYPE
+Locale to be used for character classification
+(letter, space, digit, etc.) and for interpreting byte sequences as
+multibyte characters.
+.It Ev LC_MESSAGES
+Locale to be used for diagnostic messages.
+.It Ev LC_MONETARY
+Locale to be used for interpreting monetary input
+and formatting output.
+.It Ev LC_NUMERIC
+Locale to be used for interpreting numeric input and
+formatting output.
+.It Ev LC_TIME
+Locale to be used for interpreting dates input and
+for formatting output.
.It Ev MAIL
The location of the user's
mailbox instead of the default in /var/mail,
@@ -95,6 +121,11 @@ used by
.Xr mail 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
and many other mailclients.
+.It Ev NLSPATH
+List of directories to be searched for the message catalog referred to by
+.Ev LC_MESSAGES .
+See
+.Xr catopen 3 .
.It Ev PAGER
Default paginator program. The program specified by this variable is used by
.Xr mail 1 ,
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