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33 .Nd convert collation sequence source definition
42 utility converts a collation sequence source definition
43 into a format usable by the
48 It is used to define the many ways in which
49 strings can be ordered and collated.
53 its first argument and places the result in its second
55 The transformed string is such that it can be
56 correctly ordered with other transformed strings by using
63 function transforms its arguments and does a
68 utility reads the collation sequence source definition
69 from the standard input and stores the converted definition in filename.
70 The output file produced contains the
71 database with collating sequence information in a form
72 usable by system commands and routines.
74 The following options are available:
75 .Bl -tag -width indent
77 Set directory name where
79 files can be found, current directory by default.
86 The collation sequence definition specifies a set of collating elements and
87 the rules defining how strings containing these should be ordered.
88 This is most useful for different language definitions.
90 The specification file can consist of three statements:
98 statement is required.
104 supplied, these statements must be ordered as above.
106 statements after the order statement are ignored.
108 Lines in the specification file beginning with a
111 treated as comments and are ignored.
115 .Dl "charmap charmapfile"
118 defines where a mapping of the character
119 and collating element symbols to the actual
120 character encoding can be found.
126 names are separated from their values by TAB or
128 Symbol-value can be specified in
129 a hexadecimal (\ex\fI??\fR) or octal (\e\fI???\fR)
130 representation, and can be only one character in length.
131 .Bd -literal -offset indent
132 symbol-name1 symbol-value1
133 symbol-name2 symbol-value2
137 Symbol names cannot be specified in
143 statement is optional.
144 .Bd -literal -offset indent
145 substitute "symbol" with "repl_string"
150 statement substitutes the character
154 Symbol names cannot be specified in
159 statement is optional.
161 .Dl "order order_list"
164 is a list of symbols, separated by semi colons, that defines the
169 specifies, in a short-hand
170 form, symbols that are sequential in machine code
173 An order list element
174 can be represented in any one of the following
178 The symbol itself (for example,
180 for the lower-case letter
183 The symbol in octal representation (for example,
188 The symbol in hexadecimal representation (for example,
193 The symbol name as defined in the
201 If character map name have
203 character, it must be escaped as
217 are permitted in its usual C-language meaning.
219 The symbol chain (for example:
221 .Ar <letterA><letterB>c ,
224 The symbol range (for example,
227 Comma-separated symbols, ranges and chains enclosed in parenthesis (for example
234 same primary ordering but different secondary
237 Comma-separated symbols, ranges and chains enclosed in curly brackets (for example
243 are assigned the same primary ordering only.
246 The backslash character
248 is used for continuation.
249 In this case, no characters are permitted
250 after the backslash character.
252 .Bl -tag -width indent
253 .It Pa /usr/share/locale/ Ns Ao Ar language Ac Ns Pa /LC_COLLATE
254 The standard shared location for collation orders
261 utility exits with the following values:
262 .Bl -tag -width indent
264 No errors were found and the output was successfully created.