7. Locale

7.1. General

When the value of a locale environment variable doesn't begin with a slash, the value is interpreted as the name of a locale with the set of currently defined locales:

7.2. POSIX Locale

The default locale is the POSIX locale.

7.3. Locale Definition

No additional locale categories beyond those specified are supported.

The values of the characters in the portable character set are those defined by the ASCII and ISO/IEC 8859-1 character sets.