NAME
locale —
get locale-specific
information
SYNOPSIS
locale |
[-a | -m] |
locale |
[-ck] [keyword ...] |
DESCRIPTION
Thelocale 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
localewill respect thePATH_LOCALEenvironment 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. The special keyword list can be used to retrieve a human readable list of available keywords.
-m- Write names of all available charmaps.
EXIT STATUS
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.