From 3d6d6fac8b087f68359b7d67352242c76ad18788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:57:49 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] locale.7: LC_CTYPE determines transliteration rules on glibc systems Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/locale.7 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/locale.7 b/man7/locale.7 index 954d8cc6d..18e9cfe04 100644 --- a/man7/locale.7 +++ b/man7/locale.7 @@ -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),