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locale -- get locale-specific information
SYNOPSIS
locale [-a | -m]
locale [-ck] [keyword ...]
DESCRIPTION
The locale utility is supposed to provide most locale specific information to the standard output.
When locale is invoked without arguments it will print out a summary of the current locale environment depending on environment variable set-
tings and internal status.
When locale is invoked with arguments and no options specified it will print out keyword's value determined using current locale settings.
The following options are available:
-a Write names of all available locales. While looking for locales locale will respect the PATH_LOCALE environment variable, and use it
instead of the system default locale directory.
-c Write the category name for the selected keywords.
-k Write the name and value of the selected keywords.
-m Write names of all available charmaps.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
Special (FreeBSD- / NetBSD-specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve a human readable list of available keywords.
DIAGNOSTICS
The locale utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
locale conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
locale first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.
AUTHORS
This implementation of locale was originally written by Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> for FreeBSD.
BUGS
Since NetBSD does not support charmaps in their POSIX meaning locale emulates the -m option via CODESETs listing of all available locales.
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locale - Get locale-specific information.
SYNOPSIS
locale [ -a | -m]
locale [ -ck ] name...
DESCRIPTION
The locale program writes information about the current locale environment, or all locales, to standard output.
When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current locale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_* environment
variables.
-a, --all-locales
Write names of available locales.
-m, --charmaps
Write names of available charmaps.
Output Format:
-c, --category-name
Write names of selected categories.
-k, --keyword-name
Write names and values of selected keywords.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
These environment variables affect each locale categories for all locale-aware programs:
LC_CTYPE
Character classification and case conversion.
LC_COLLATE
Collation order.
LC_TIME
Date and time formats.
LC_NUMERIC
Non-monetary numeric formats.
LC_MONETARY
Monetary formats.
LC_MESSAGES
Formats of informative and diagnostic messages and
interactive responses.
LC_PAPER
Paper size.
LC_NAME
Name formats.
LC_ADDRESS
Address formats and location information.
LC_TELEPHONE
Telephone number formats.
LC_MEASUREMENT
Measurement units (Metric or Other).
LC_IDENTIFICATION
Metadata about the locale information.
This environment variable can switch against multiple locale database:
LOCPATH
The directory where locale data is stored. By default, /usr/lib/locale is used.
FILES
/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
List of supported values (and their associated encoding) for the locale name. This representation is recommended over
--all-locales one, due being the system wide supported values.
AUTHOR
locale was written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.
This manpage was written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and expanded by Alastair McKinstry <mck-
instry@computer.org>
SEE ALSO locale(5), locale(7), setlocale(3)3rd Berkeley Distribution 2004-12-16 LOCALE(1)