environ(5)

Name of the user's login directory, set by login(1) from the password file (see passwd(4)).

Identifies the user's requirements for native language, local customs and coded character set, if the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME are unset or null.

The format of LANG is:

The valid values for LANG are supported locales. (See lang(5).) Native Language Support (NLS) is initiated at run-time by calling setlocale(3C). The following call to setlocale() binds the execution of a program to the user's language requirements:

This setlocale() call initializes the program locale from the environment variables associated with setlocale(). LANG provides the necessary defaults if any of the category-specific environment variables are not set or set to the empty string.

The LANG environment variable can have a maximum length of SL_NAME_SIZE bytes (see header file <locale.h>).

Defines language options for mode and data order in the form:

LANGOPTS values are given in English as an ASCII character string. mode describes the mode of a file where l (ell) represents Latin mode and n represents non-Latin mode. Non-Latin mode is assumed for values other than l and n. order describes the data order of a file where k is keyboard order and s is screen order.

Determines the values for all locale categories. The value of LC_ALL has precedence over any of the other environment variables LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, and LANG.

Determines the user's requirements for language, territory, and codeset with respect to character collation, character classification and conversion, output messages, currency symbol and monetary value format, numeric data presentation, and time formats, respectively. If LC_ALL and any of these are not defined in the environment, LANG provides the defaults.

Syntax for the environment variables LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME is:

The language field conforms with ISO 639 standard for language names and the territory field conforms with the ISO 3166 territory names. For a list of the locale names, see lang(5).

The @modifier field allows the user to select between more than one value of a category within the same language definition. HP-UX does not currently provide locales with modifiers.

The values of the locale categories are determined by a precedence order; the first condition met below determines the value:

Determines the locale category for character collation. It determines collation information for regular expressions and sorting, including equivalence classes and multi-character collating elements, in various utilities and strcoll(3C) and strxfrm(3C) (see string(3C)).

Determines the locale category for character classification (such as alphabetic, digit, upper-case.) See isalpha(3C), isdigit(3C), and isupper(3C), character conversion in ctype(3C). See toupper(3C), tolower(3C), and the interpretation of text as single-byte or multi-byte characters in conv(3C).

Determines the locale category for processing affirmative and negative responses and the language and cultural conventions in which diagnostic and informative messages should be written. It may also affect the behavior of catopen(3C) in determining the message catalog to open.

Determines the locale category for monetary-related numeric formatting information.

Determines the locale category for numeric formatting information (such as the thousands separator and the radix character) in various utilities as well as the formatted I/O operations in printf(3S) and scanf(3S) and the string conversion functions in strtod(3C).

Determines the locale category for date and time formatting information. It affects the behavior of time functions in strftime(3C).

Contains a colon-separated list of directory prefixes to be searched by man(1) for manual entries. Upon logging in, /etc/profile (or /etc/csh.login) sets MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/contrib/man:usr/local/man. If the file /etc/MANPATH exists, the default settings are taken from this file.

MANPATH uses the same syntax as the PATH environment variable, with the addition of recognizing the specifiers %L, %l, %t, and %c as used in the NLSPATH environment variable. See NLSPATH below for a description of these specifiers. This provides a way to specify paths to locale-specific manual entries.

It is assumed that each of the prefixes given in MANPATH contain subdirectories of the form man*, man*.Z, cat* and cat*.Z. (See man(1), catman(1M), and fixman(1M).)

Contains a sequence of pseudo-pathnames used by catopen(3C) when attempting to locate message catalogs. Each pseudo-pathname contains a name template consisting of an optional path prefix, one or more substitution field descriptors, a file name and an optional file name suffix. For example:

defines that catopen(3C) should look for all message catalogs in the directory /system/nlslib , where the catalog name should be constructed from the name parameter passed to catopen (3C) (%N) with the suffix .cat.

Field descriptors consist of a % followed by a single character. Field descriptors and their substitution values are:

For example, given:

catopen(3C) attempts to open the file /system/nlslib/$LC_MESSAGES/name.cat as a message catalog.

A null string is substituted if the specified value is not defined. Separators are not included in %t and %c substitutions. Note that a default value is not supplied for %L. If LC_MESSAGES is not set and NLSPATH had the value in the previous example, catopen(3C) would attempt to open the file /system/nlslib/name.cat as a message catalog.

Path names defined in NLSPATH are separated by colons (:). A leading colon or two adjacent colons (::) is equivalent to specifying %N. For example, given:

catopen(3C) with the oflag parameter set to NL_CAT_LOCALE will attempt to open the following files in the indicated order: ./name, ./name.cat, and /nlslib/$LC_MESSAGES/name.cat. The first file successfully opened is taken as the message catalog.

A default pseudo-pathname defined by the system is effectively appended to NLSPATH and used by catopen(3C) whenever a message catalog cannot be opened in any of the user defined pseudo-pathnames. This system-wide default path is:

If catopen(3C) is invoked from a setuid or setgid application with owner root, the environment variable NLSPATH is not used. Instead the system file /etc/default/nlspath is used to locate the message catalogs. See nlspath(4) for details.

PAGER indicates the paginator through which output from certain commands is piped. Its value must be a string specifying the complete command line of the desired paginator. Two examples are:

PAGER affects several commands, including man(1) and the interactive mailers. Some of the affected commands provide alternate means of selecting a pager in case there is a conflict. See the individual manual entries for details.

PATH indicates the sequence of directory prefixes that sh(1), time(1), nice(1), nohup(1), and others search when looking for a file known by an incomplete path name. Prefixes are separated by colons (:). The login(1) command sets PATH/usr/bin.

TERM identifies the kind of terminal for which output is to be prepared. This information is used by commands such as vi(1) and mm(1), which can exploit special capabilities of that terminal.

TZ sets time zone information. TZ can be set using the format:

where: