NAME

LANG - description of supported languages

DESCRIPTION

POSIX NLS (Native Language Support) provides support for the processing and customs requirements of a variety of languages. To enable NLS support for a particular language, a language definition must exist on the POSIX system. Invoking the command locale -a (see locale) displays information regarding which languages are currently supported on a particular POSIX system.

The default processing language is POSIX. POSIX provides an environment in which processing occurs without NLS functionality. This environment is based on the 7-bit-coded USASCII character set.

POSIX and C are equivalent and can be used interchangeably.

AUTHOR

LANG was developed by HP in HP-UX.

EXAMPLE

LANG=en_US

SEE ALSO

locale, localedef, setlocale(), environ.