From 66676c9124d646284524c0c9b260c571da7e9221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Myllynen Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:44:11 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] charmap.5: Various minor updates and improvements - more precise title - extend description a bit - document previously omitted WIDTH_DEFAULT Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/charmap.5 | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/charmap.5 b/man5/charmap.5 index 463e72d8d..de6e4a353 100644 --- a/man5/charmap.5 +++ b/man5/charmap.5 @@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ .\" .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.