10.3 Locales

A locale consists of different categories, each of which determines one aspect of the international environment. Table 10-1 lists the categories in a locale and describes the information in each.

Table 10-1 Locale Categories

Category	Description
LC_COLLATE	Contains information about collating sequences.
LC_CTYPE	Contains information about character classification.
LC_MESSAGES	Defines the answers that are expected in response to yes/no prompts.
LC_MONETARY	Contains monetary formatting information.
LC_NUMERIC	Contains information about formatting numbers.
LC_TIME	Contains time and date information.

The locales provided by Digital reside in the directory defined by the SYS$I18N_LOCALE logical name. The file naming convention for locales is:

language_country_codeset.locale

Where:

language is the mnemonic for the language. For example, EN indicates an English locale.
country is the mnemonic for the country. For example, GB indicates a British locale.
codeset is the name of the ISO standard codeset for the locale. For example, ISO8859-1 is the ISO 8859 codeset for the Western European languages. See Section 10.6 for more information about the codesets supported.

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