NAME
locale —
get locale-specific
information
SYNOPSIS
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
settings 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.