From 5f49682efa2afb59e3f9c363789f0e2dd18d8720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:22:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] locale.7: Document LC_IDENTIFICATION Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/locale.7 | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/locale.7 b/man7/locale.7 index cb766269a..6f558fff7 100644 --- a/man7/locale.7 +++ b/man7/locale.7 @@ -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 .) +.TP .B LC_MONETARY This changes the information returned by .BR localeconv (3)