locale.7: Document LC_IDENTIFICATION

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-03-07 14:22:16 +01:00
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@ -100,6 +100,21 @@ and the multibyte character functions such as
or
.BR wctomb (3).
.TP
.BR LC_IDENTIFICATION " (GNU extension, since glibc 2.2)"
Change settings that relate to the metdata for the locale.
Applications that need this information can use
.BR nl_langinfo (3)
to retrieve nonstandard elements, such as
.B _NL_IDENTIFICATION_TITLE
(title of this locale document)
and
.B _NL_IDENTIFICATION_TERRITORY
(geograpical territory to which this locale document applies),
which might return strings such as "English locale for the USA"
and "USA".
(Other element names are listed in
.IR <langinfo.h> .)
.TP
.B LC_MONETARY
This changes the information returned by
.BR localeconv (3)