LOCALE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOCALE(1)

NAME

     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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