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 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
STANDARDS
locale
conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') .
HISTORY
locale
first appeared in
NetBSD2.0.
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.