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Localization
blank) and their behavior (for example, the mapping of lowercase letters to
uppercase letters). This locale also determines the interpretation of
sequences of bytes as characters (such as singlebyte versus doublebyte
characters).
LC_MESSAGES
Identifies the locale that controls the processing of affirmative and negative
responses. This locale also defines the language and cultural conventions
used when writing messages.
LC_MONETARY
Determines the locale that controls monetary-related numeric formatting (for
example, currency symbol, decimal point character, and thousands
separator).
LC_NUMERIC
Determines the locale that controls numeric formatting (for example,
decimal point character and thousands separator).
LC_TIME
Identifies the locale that determines the format of time and date strings.
LC_SYNTAX
Identifies the locale that defines the encodings for the variant characters in
the portable character set.
The NLSPATH localization variable specifies where the message catalogs are to be
found.
For example,
NLSPATH="/system/nlslib/%N.cat"
specifies that the z/OS shell is to look for all message catalogs in the directory
/system/nlslib, where the catalog name is to be constructed from the name
parameter passed to the z/OS shell with the suffix .cat.
Substitution fields consist of a % symbol, followed by a single-letter keyword. These
keywords are currently defined:
%N The value of the name parameter
%L The value of the LC_MESSAGES category, or LANG, depending on how
the catopen() function that opens this catalog is coded. For more
information, refer to catopen() in z/OS XL C/C++ Run-Time Library
Reference.
%l The language element from the LC_MESSAGES category
%t The territory element from the LC_MESSAGES category
%c The codeset element from the LC_MESSAGES category
Templates defined in NLSPATH are separated by colons (:). A leading colon or two
adjacent colons (::) are equivalent to specifying %N. For example:
NLSPATH=":%N.cat:/nlslib/%L/%N.cat"
specifies that the z/OS shell should look for the requested message catalog in
name, name.cat, and /nlslib/category/name.cat, where category is the value of the
LC_MESSAGES or LANG category of the current locale.
Do not set the NLSPATH variable unless you need to override the default system
path. Otherwise the commands may behave unpredictably.
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