HP UX Operating Systems 343

gencat(1)	gencat(1)
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NL_TEXTMAX, NL_SETMAX, and NL_MSGMAX are de®ned in <limits.h>. NL_SETD is de®ned in <nl_types.h> . MAX_BUFLEN is de®ned in <msgcat.h>.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the default value of "C" (see lang(5)) is used. If any of the internationalization variables contains an invalid setting, gencat will behave as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5).

LC_ALL, if set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all of the other internationalization variables.

LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of text as single and/or multi-byte characters, the classi®cation of characters as printable, and the characters matched by character class expressions in regular expres- sions.

LC_MESSAGES determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error and informative messages written to standard output.

NLSPATH determines the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

WARNINGS

The $quote directive is not currently supported on the HP MPE and RTE operating systems.

AUTHOR

gencat was developed by HP and the X/Open Company, Ltd.