locale(1)							   User Commands							 locale(1)

NAME

       locale - get locale-specific information

SYNOPSIS

       locale [-a | -m]

       locale [-ck] name...

DESCRIPTION

       The locale utility writes information about the current locale environment, or all public locales, to the standard output. For the purposes
       of this section, a public locale is one provided by the implementation that is accessible to the application.

       When locale is invoked without any arguments, it summarizes the current locale environment for each locale category as  determined  by  the
       settings of the environment variables.

       When invoked with operands, it writes values that have been assigned to the keywords in the locale categories, as follows:

	   o	  Specifying a keyword name selects the named keyword and the category containing that keyword.

	   o	  Specifying a category name selects the named category and all keywords in that category.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a    Writes information about all available public locales. The available locales include POSIX, representing the POSIX locale.

       -c    Writes  the  names  of  selected  locale categories. The -c option increases readability when more than one category is selected (for
	     example, via more than one keyword name or via a category name). It is valid both with and without the -k option.

       -k    Writes the names and values of selected keywords. The implementation may omit values for some keywords; see OPERANDS.

       -m    Writes names of available charmaps; see  localedef(1).

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       name    The name of a locale category, the name of a keyword in a locale category, or the reserved name charmap. The named category or key-
	       word will be selected for output. If a single name represents both a locale category name and a keyword name in the current locale,
	       the results are unspecified; otherwise, both category and keyword names can be specified as name operands, in any sequence.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Examples of the locale utility

       In the following examples, the assumption is that locale environment variables are set as follows:

	 LANG=locale_x LC_COLLATE=locale_y

       The command locale would result in the following output:

	 LANG=locale_x
	 LC_CTYPE="locale_x"
	 LC_NUMERIC="locale_x"
	 LC_TIME="locale_x"
	 LC_COLLATE=locale_y
	 LC_MONETARY="locale_x"
	 LC_MESSAGES="locale_x"
	 LC_ALL=

       The command

	 LC_ALL=POSIX locale -ck decimal_point

       would produce:

	 LC_NUMERIC
	 decimal_point="."

       The following command shows an application of locale to determine whether a user-supplied response is affirmative:

	 if printf "%s
" "$response" | /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -Eq
		 "$(locale yesexpr)"
	 then
	     affirmative processing goes here
	 else
	     non-affirmative processing goes here
	 fi

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for the descriptions of  LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

       The LANG, LC_*, and NLSPATH environment variables must specify the current locale environment to be written out.  These	environment  vari-
       ables will be used if the -a option is not specified.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     All the requested information was found and output successfully.

       >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWloc			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       localedef(1), attributes(5), charmap(5), environ(5), locale(5), standards(5)

NOTES

       If LC_CTYPE or keywords in the category LC_CTYPE are specified, only the values in the range 0x00-0x7f are written out.

       If LC_COLLATE or keywords in the category LC_COLLATE are specified, no actual values are written out.

SunOS 5.11							    20 Dec 1996 							 locale(1)