









		X Locale Database Definition




		      Yoshio Horiuchi
			 IBM Japan



























































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1.  General

An X Locale Database contains the subset of a user's envi-
ronment that depends on language, in X Window System.  It is
made up from one or more categories.  Each category consists
of some classes and sub-classes.

It is provided as a plain ASCII text file, so a user can
change its contents easily.  It allows a user to customize
the behavior of internationalized portion of Xlib without
changing Xlib itself.

This document describes;

	  Database Format Definition

	  Contents of Database in sample implementation

Since it is hard to define the set of required information
for all platforms, only the flexible database format is
defined.  The available entries in database are implementa-
tion dependent.


2.  Database Format Definition

The X Locale Database contains one or more category defini-
tions.	This section describes the format of each category
definition.

The category definition consists of one or more class defi-
nitions.  Each class definition has a pair of class name and
class value, or has several subclasses which are enclosed by
the left brace ({) and the right brace (}).

Comments can be placed by using the number sign character
(#).  Putting the number sign character on the top of the
line indicates that the entire line is comment.  Also,
putting any whitespace character followed by the number sign
character indicates that a part of the line (from the number
sign to the end of the line) is comment.  A line can be con-
tinued by placing backslash (\) character as the last char-
acter on the line;  this continuation character will be dis-
carded from the input.	Comment lines cannot be continued on
a subsequent line using an escaped new line character.

X Locale Database only accepts XPCS, the X Portable Charac-
ter Set.  The reserved symbols are;  the quotation mark("),
the number sign (#), the semicolon(;), the backslash(\), the
left brace({) and the right brace(}).

The format of category definition is;





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X Locale Database Definition		X11, Release 6.9/7.0


     CategoryDefinition   ::=	CategoryHeader CategorySpec CategoryTrailer
     CategoryHeader	  ::=	CategoryName NL
     CategorySpec	  ::=	{ ClassSpec }
     CategoryTrailer	  ::=	"END" Delimiter CategoryName NL
     CategoryName	  ::=	String
     ClassSpec		  ::=	ClassName Delimiter ClassValue NL
     ClassName		  ::=	String
     ClassValue 	  ::=	ValueList | "{" NL { ClassSpec } "}"
     ValueList		  ::=	Value | Value ";" ValueList
     Value		  ::=	ValuePiece | ValuePiece Value
     ValuePiece 	  ::=	String | QuotedString | NumericString
     String		  ::=	Char { Char }
     QuotedString	  ::=	""" QuotedChar { QuotedChar } """
     NumericString	  ::=	"\\o" OctDigit { OctDigit }
			    |	"\\d" DecDigit { DecDigit }
			    |	"\\x" HexDigit { HexDigit }
     Char		  ::=	<XPCS except NL, Space or unescaped reserved symbols>
     QuotedChar 	  ::=	<XPCS except unescaped """>
     OctDigit		  ::=	<character in the range of "0" - "7">
     DecDigit		  ::=	<character in the range of "0" - "9">
     HexDigit		  ::=	<character in the range of "0" - "9", "a" - "f", "A" - "F">
     Delimiter		  ::=	 Space { Space }
     Space		  ::=	<space> | <horizontal tab>
     NL 		  ::=	<newline>


Elements separated by vertical bar (|) are alternatives.
Curly braces ({...}) indicate zero or more repetitions of
the enclosed elements.	Square brackets ([...]) indicate
that the enclosed element is optional. Quotes ("...") are
used around literal characters.

The backslash, which is not the top character of the Numer-
icString, is recognized as an escape character, so that the
next one character is treated as a literal character.  For
example, the two-character sequence, ``\"''(the backslash
followed by the quotation mark) is recognized and replaced
with a quotation mark character.  Any whitespace character,
that is not the Delimiter, unquoted and unescaped, is
ignored.


3.  Contents of Database

The available categories and classes depend on implementa-
tion, because different platform will require different
information set.  For example, some platform have system
locale but some platform don't.  Furthermore, there might be
a difference in functionality even if the platform has sys-
tem locale.

In current sample implementation, categories listed below
are available.




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X Locale Database Definition		X11, Release 6.9/7.0


     XLC_FONTSET   XFontSet relative information
     XLC_XLOCALE   Character classification and conversion information



4.  XLC_FONTSET Category

The XLC_FONTSET category defines the XFontSet relative
information.  It contains the CHARSET_REGISTRY-
CHARSET_ENCODING name and character mapping side (GL, GR,
etc), and is used in Output Method (OM).

     -----------------------------------------------------------
     class	       super class   description
     -----------------------------------------------------------
     fsN			     Nth fontset (N=0,1,2, ...)

     charset	       fsN	     list of encoding name
     font	       fsN	     list of font encoding name
     -----------------------------------------------------------



fsN
     Includes an encoding information for Nth charset, where
     N is the index number (0,1,2,...).  If there are 4
     charsets available in current locale, 4 fontsets, fs0,
     fs1, fs2 and fs3, should be defined.  This class has
     two subclasses, `charset' and `font'.

charset
     Specifies an encoding information to be used internally
     in Xlib for this fontset.	The format of value is;

	  EncodingInfo	 ::=   EncodingName [ ":" EncodingSide ]
	  EncodingName	 ::=   CHARSET_REGISTRY-CHARSET_ENCODING
	  EncodingSide	 ::=   "GL" | "GR"

     For detail definition of CHARSET_REGISTRY-
     CHARSET_ENCODING, refer "X Logical Font Descriptions"
     document.

     example:
	  ISO8859-1:GL

font
     Specifies a list of encoding information which is used
     for searching appropriate font for this fontset.  The
     left most entry has highest priority.








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5.  XLC_XLOCALE Category

The XLC_XLOCALE category defines character classification,
conversion and other character attributes.

     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     class		     super class   description
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     encoding_name			   codeset name
     mb_cur_max 			   MB_CUR_MAX
     state_depend_encoding		   state dependent or not
     wc_encoding_mask			   for parsing wc string
     wc_shift_bits			   for conversion between wc and mb
     csN				   Nth charset (N=0,1,2,...)

     side		     csN	   mapping side (GL, etc)
     length		     csN	   length of a character
     mb_encoding	     csN	   for parsing mb string
     wc_encoding	     csN	   for parsing wc string
     ct_encoding	     csN	   list of encoding name for ct
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------



encoding_name
     Specifies a codeset name of current locale.

mb_cur_max
     Specifies a maximum allowable number of bytes in a
     multi-byte character.  It is corresponding to
     MB_CUR_MAX of "ISO/IEC 9899:1990 C Language Standard".

state_depend_encoding
     Indicates a current locale is state dependent. The
     value should be specified "True" or "False".

wc_encoding_mask
     Specifies a bit-mask for parsing wide-char string.
     Each wide character is applied bit-and operation with
     this bit-mask, then is classified into the unique
     charset, by using `wc_encoding'.

wc_shift_bits
     Specifies a number of bit to be shifted for converting
     from a multi-byte character to a wide character, and
     vice-versa.

csN
     Includes a character set information for Nth charset,
     where N is the index number (0,1,2,...).  If there are
     4 charsets available in current locale, cs0, cs1, cs2
     and cs3 should be defined. This class has five sub-
     classes, `side', `length', `mb_encoding' `wc_encoding'
     and `ct_encoding'.



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side
     Specifies a mapping side of this charset. The format of
     this value is;

	  Side	 ::=   EncodingSide [``:Default'']

     The suffix ":Default" can be specified.  It indicates
     that a character belongs to the specified side is
     mapped to this charset in initial state.

length
     Specifies a number of bytes of a multi-byte character
     of this charset.  It should not contain the length of
     any single-shift sequence.

mb_encoding
     Specifies a list of shift sequence for parsing multi-
     byte string.  The format of this value is;

	  MBEncoding	  ::=	ShiftType ShiftSequence
			    |	ShiftType ShiftSequence ";" MBEncoding
	  ShiftType	  ::=	"<SS>" | "<LSL>" | "<LSR>"
	  ShiftSequence   ::=	SequenceValue | SequenceValue ShiftSequence
	  SequenceValue   ::=	NumericString

	  shift types:
	      <SS>	  Indicates single shift sequence
	      <LSL>	  Indicates locking shift left sequence
	      <LSR>	  Indicates locking shift right sequence

     example:
	  <LSL> \x1b \x28 \x4a; <LSL> \x1b \x28 \x42


wc_encoding
     Specifies an integer value for parsing wide-char
     string.  It is used to determine the charset for each
     wide character, after applying bit-and operation using
     `wc_encoding_mask'.  This value should be unique in all
     csN classes.

ct_encoding
     Specifies a list of encoding information that can be
     used for Compound Text.


6.  Sample of X Locale Database

The following is sample X Locale Database file.


     #	$Xorg: LocaleDB.ms,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:42:49 cpqbld Exp $
     #	XLocale Database Sample for ja_JP.euc
     #



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X Locale Database Definition		X11, Release 6.9/7.0


     #
     #	  XLC_FONTSET category
     #
     XLC_FONTSET
     #	  fs0 class (7 bit ASCII)
     fs0  {
	  charset	 ISO8859-1:GL
	  font		 ISO8859-1:GL; JISX0201.1976-0:GL
     }
     #	  fs1 class (Kanji)
     fs1  {
	  charset	 JISX0208.1983-0:GL
	  font		 JISX0208.1983-0:GL
     }
     #	  fs2 class (Half Kana)
     fs2  {
	  charset	 JISX0201.1976-0:GR
	  font		 JISX0201.1976-0:GR
     }
     #	  fs3 class (User Defined Character)
     # fs3     {
     #	  charset	 JISX0212.1990-0:GL
     #	  font		 JISX0212.1990-0:GL
     # }
     END XLC_FONTSET

     #
     #	  XLC_XLOCALE category
     #
     XLC_XLOCALE

     encoding_name	 ja.euc
     mb_cur_max 	 3
     state_depend_encoding    False

     wc_encoding_mask	 \x00008080
     wc_shift_bits	 8

     #	  cs0 class
     cs0  {
	  side		 GL:Default
	  length	 1
	  wc_encoding	 \x00000000
	  ct_encoding	      ISO8859-1:GL; JISX0201.1976-0:GL
     }
     #	  cs1 class
     cs1  {
	  side		 GR:Default
	  length	 2

	  wc_encoding	 \x00008080

	  ct_encoding	      JISX0208.1983-0:GL; JISX0208.1983-0:GR;\
			 JISX0208.1983-1:GL; JISX0208.1983-1:GR



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     }

     #	  cs2 class
     cs2  {
	  side		 GR
	  length	 1
	  mb_encoding	 <SS> \x8e

	  wc_encoding	 \x00000080

	  ct_encoding	      JISX0201.1976-0:GR
     }

     #	  cs3 class
     # cs3     {
     #	  side		 GL
     #	  length	 2
     #	  mb_encoding	 <SS> \x8f
     # #if HasWChar32
     #	  wc_encoding	 \x20000000
     # #else
     #	  wc_encoding	 \x00008000
     # #endif
     #	  ct_encoding	 JISX0212.1990-0:GL; JISX0212.1990-0:GR
     # }

     END XLC_XLOCALE


7.  Reference


[1] ISO/IEC 9899:1990 C Language Standard

[2] X Logical Font Descriptions






















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