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.