redhat man page for locale

LOCALE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 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
       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.

AUTHOR
       locale is written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.

       This manpage is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    March 2001								 LOCALE(1)