locale(1) [freebsd man page]

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

NAME

     locale -- get locale-specific information

SYNOPSIS

     locale [-a | -m]
     locale -k list [prefix]
     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, subject to the environment settings
     and internal status.

     When locale is invoked with the keyword arguments, and no options are specified, it will print out the values of all keywords specified,
     using the current locale settings.

     The following options are available:

     -a      Print names of all available locales.  While looking for locales, locale will respect the PATH_LOCALE environment variable, and use
	     it instead of the system's default locale directory.

     -c      Print the category name for all selected keywords.  If no keywords are selected, print the category name for all defined keywords.

     -k      Print the names and values of all selected keywords.  If no keywords are selected, print the names and values of all defined key-
	     words.

     -m      Print names of all available charmaps.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The special (FreeBSD specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve the human readable list of all available keywords.  If so, a prefix
     string can be defined to limit the amount of keywords returned.

EXIT STATUS

     The locale utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     setlocale(3)

STANDARDS

     The locale utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 (``POSIX.1'').  The LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES and NLSPATH environment variables are not
     interpreted.

BUGS

     Since FreeBSD does not support charmaps in their POSIX meaning, locale emulates the -m option using the CODESETs listing of all available
     locales.

BSD
								 November 18, 2012							       BSD

LOCALE(1)							 Debian GNU/Linux							 LOCALE(1)

NAME

       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)