Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.28+, H06.05+)

File Format Reference Pages charmap(4)

Although you cannot assign multiple encodings to one symbolic name, you can create

multiple names for one encoded value. This is because some characters have several

common names. For example, the "." character is called a period in some parts of the

world, and a full stop in others. Both names may appear in the charmap. For example:

<period> \x2e

<full-stop> \x2e

If used, comments must begin with the character speciﬁed by the <comment_char> spe-

cial symbolic name.

• The END CHARMAP section trailer.

The following is an example of a portion of a possible CHARMAP section from a charmap ﬁle:

CHARMAP

<code_set_name> "ISO8859-1"

<mb_cur_max> 1

<mb_cur_min> 1

<escape_char> \

<comment_char> #

<NUL> \x00

<SOH> \x01

<STX> \x02

<ETX> \x03

<EOT> \x04

<ENQ> \x05

<ACK> \x06

<alert> \x07

<backspace> \x09

<tab> \x09

<newline> \x0a

<vertical-tab> \x0b

<form-feed> \x0c

<carriage-return> \x0d

END CHARMAP

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: locale(1), localedef(1).

Files: locale(4).

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