/etc/locale/category/locale
The category directory contains information relating to one category of the complete list of categories that comprise a full locale for all systems sharing this directory. locale is either a file or a directory that contains information relating to the relevant category indicated by its parent directory category. locale is the name that is given to describe the style of operation required by an application in a particular language, territory or code-set.
At runtime these directories will be accessed if the application has made a valid call to:
setlocale(category,locale)
where category can be any one of the following settings:
Substitution fields consist of a % symbol, followed by a single-letter keyword. The following keywords are currently defined:
A null string is sustituted if the specified value is not defined. Pathnames defined in NLSPATH are separated by colons (:). A leading or two adjacent colons indicate the current directory. For example:
NLSPATH=":%N.cat:/nlslib/%L/%N.cat"
Indicates to catopen.3c that it should look for the requested message catalog in name, name.cat and /nlslib/$LANG/name.cat. The LC_ALL and LANG environment variables do not commute to real directories or files but instead relate to a locale that is a assumed to be valid for all of the above categories.
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