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<chapter id="charset">
<title>Localization</>
in Sweden (<literal>SE</>). Other possibilities might be
<literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (French
Canadian). If more than one character set can be used for a
- locale then the specifications look like this:
- <literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available on your
+ locale then the specifications can take the form
+ <replaceable>language_territory.codeset</>. For example,
+ <literal>fr_BE.UTF-8</> represents the French language (fr) as
+ spoken in Belgium (BE), with a <acronym>UTF-8</> character set
+ encoding.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ What locales are available on your
system under what names depends on what was provided by the operating
system vendor and what was installed. On most Unix systems, the command
<literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.