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charmap.5: Various minor updates and improvements 

- more precise title
- extend description a bit
- document previously omitted WIDTH_DEFAULT

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.TH CHARMAP 5 2014-06-02 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
charmap \- characters to define character sets
charmap \- character set description file
.SH DESCRIPTION
A character set description (charmap) defines all available characters
and their encodings in a character set.
.BR localedef (1)
can use charmaps to create locale variants for different character sets.
.SS Syntax
The charmap file starts with a header that may consist of the
following keywords:
@ -74,7 +76,13 @@ The character set definition section ends with the string
The character set definition section may optionally be followed by a
section to define widths of characters.
.PP
The width section starts with the keyword
The
.B WIDTH_DEFAULT
keyword can be used to define the default width for all characters
not explicitly listed.
The default character width is 1.
.PP
The width section for individual characters starts with the keyword
.B WIDTH
in the first column.