locale.7: LC_CTYPE determines transliteration rules on glibc systems

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@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ the German sharp s is sorted as "ss".
This category determines the interpretation of byte sequences as characters
(e.g., single versus multibyte characters), character classifications
(e.g., alphabetic or digit), and the behavior of character classes.
On glibc systems this category also determines
the character transliteration rules
for
.BR iconv (1)
and
.BR iconv (3).
It changes the behavior of the character handling and
classification functions, such as
.BR isupper (3)
@ -366,10 +372,12 @@ POSIX.1-2001.
.\"
.\" The GNU gettext functions are specified in LI18NUX2000.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR iconv (1),
.BR locale (1),
.BR localedef (1),
.BR catopen (3),
.BR gettext (3),
.BR iconv (3),
.BR localeconv (3),
.BR mbstowcs (3),
.BR newlocale (3),