ISO-8859-1 encoding -- a text encoding that cannot even accommodate the Euro
currency sign.
-Some locale names use @samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}.@@@var{variant}} instead of
+Some locale names use @samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}@@@var{variant}} instead of
@samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}}. The @samp{@@@var{variant}} can denote any kind of
characteristics that is not already implied by the language @var{ll} and
the country @var{CC}. It can denote a particular monetary unit. For example,
@subsection Output details
@table @samp
-@item -l @var{ll_CC}
-@itemx --locale=@var{ll_CC}
+@item -l @var{ll_CC[.encoding]}
+@itemx --locale=@var{ll_CC[.encoding]}
@opindex -l@r{, @code{msginit} option}
@opindex --locale@r{, @code{msginit} option}
Set target locale. @var{ll} should be a language code, and @var{CC} should
-be a country code. The command @samp{locale -a} can be used to output a list
+be a country code. The optional part @var{.encoding} specifies the encoding
+of the locale; most often this part is @code{.UTF-8}.
+The command @samp{locale -a} can be used to output a list
of all installed locales. The default is the user's locale setting.
@item --no-translator
printf (_("\
Output details:\n"));
printf (_("\
- -l, --locale=LL_CC set target locale\n"));
+ -l, --locale=LL_CC[.ENCODING] set target locale\n"));
printf (_("\
--no-translator assume the PO file is automatically generated\n"));
printf (_("\