locale —
get locale-specific information
locale |
[-ck] [keyword ...] |
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.
Special (FreeBSD- /
NetBSD-specific) keyword list
can be used to retrieve a human readable list of available keywords.
The locale utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
locale conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(“POSIX.1”).
locale first appeared in NetBSD
2.0.
This implementation of locale was originally written by
Alexey Zelkin ⟨phantom@FreeBSD.org⟩ for
FreeBSD.
Since NetBSD does not support
charmaps in their
POSIX meaning locale emulates the
-m option via CODESETs listing of all available
locales.