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locale -- display locale settings
SYNOPSIS
locale [-a|m]
locale [-ck] name [...]
DESCRIPTION
locale displays information about the current locale, or a list of all available locales.
When locale is run with no arguments, it will display the current source of each locale category.
When locale is given the name of a category, it acts as if it had been given each keyword in that category. For each keyword it is given,
the current value is displayed.
OPTIONS -a Lists all public locales.
-c name ...
Lists the category name before each keyword, unless it is the same category as the previously displayed keyword.
-k name ...
Displays the name of each keyword prior to its value.
-m Lists all available public charmaps. Darwin locales do not support charmaps, so list all CODESETs instead.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
name is the name of a keyword or category to display. A list of all keywords and categories can be shown with the following command:
locale -ck LC_ALL
ENVIRONMENT
LANG Used as a substitute for any unset LC_* variable. If LANG is unset, it will act as if set to "C". If any of LANG or LC_* are
set to invalid values, locale acts as if they are all unset.
LC_ALL Will override the setting of all other LC_* variables.
LC_COLLATE Sets the locale for the LC_COLLATE category.
LC_CTYPE Sets the locale for the LC_CTYPE category.
LC_MESSAGES Sets the locale for the LC_MESSAGES category.
LC_MONETARY Sets the locale for the LC_MONETARY category.
LC_NUMERIC Sets the locale for the LC_NUMERIC category.
LC_TIME Sets the locale for the LC_TIME category.
SEE ALSO localedef(1), localeconv(3), nl_langinfo(3), setlocale(3)STANDARDS
The locale utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
locale appeared in Mac OS X 10.4
Darwin August 27, 2004 Darwin
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locale - get locale-specific information
SYNOPSIS
locale [option]
locale [option] -a
locale [option] -m
locale [option] name...
DESCRIPTION
The locale command displays information about the current locale, or all locales, on standard output.
When invoked without arguments, locale displays the current locale settings for each locale category (see locale(5)), based on the settings
of the environment variables that control the locale (see locale(7)). Values for variables set in the environment are printed without dou-
ble quotes, implied values are printed with double quotes.
If either the -a or the -m option (or one of their long-format equivalents) is specified, the behavior is as follows:
-a, --all-locales
Display a list of all available locales. The -v option causes the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata about each locale to be included in
the output.
-m, --charmaps
Display the available charmaps (character set description files). To display the current character set for the locale, use locale
-c charmap.
The locale command can also be provided with one or more arguments, which are the names of locale keywords (for example, date_fmt, ctype-
class-names, yesexpr, or decimal_point) or locale categories (for example, LC_CTYPE or LC_TIME). For each argument, the following is dis-
played:
* For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
* For a locale category, the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.
When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
-c, --category-name
For a category name argument, write the name of the locale category on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for that
category.
For a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale category for this keyword on a separate line preceding the keyword value.
This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified. It can be combined with the -k option.
-k, --keyword-name
For each keyword whose value is being displayed, include also the name of that keyword, so that the output has the format:
keyword="value"
The locale command also knows about the following options:
-v, --verbose
Display additional information for some command-line option and argument combinations.
-?, --help
Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.
--usage
Display a short usage message and exit.
-V, --version
Display the program version and exit.
FILES
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
Usual default locale archive location.
/usr/share/i18n/locales
Usual default path for locale definition files.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
EXAMPLE
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ locale date_fmt
%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
$ locale -k date_fmt
date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
$ locale -ck date_fmt
LC_TIME
date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
$ locale LC_TELEPHONE
+%c (%a) %l
(%a) %l
11
1
UTF-8
$ locale -k LC_TELEPHONE
tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
int_select="11"
int_prefix="1"
telephone-codeset="UTF-8"
The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk directory with the localedef(1) utility under the $HOME/.locale directory,
then tests the result with the date(1) command, and then sets the environment variables LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profile file so that
the custom locale will be used in the subsequent user sessions:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale
$ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8
$ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date
$ echo "export LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc
SEE ALSO localedef(1), charmap(5), locale(5), locale(7)COLOPHON
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