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LOCALE(1) General Commands Manual LOCALE(1)

NAME

locale - Get locale-specific information.

SYNOPSIS

locale [ -a ⎪ -m]

locale [ -ck ] name...

DESCRIPTION

The locale program writes information about the current locale environment, or all locales, to standard output.

When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current locale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_* environment variables.

-a, --all-locales

        Write names of available locales.
-m, --charmaps 

        Write names of available charmaps.

Output Format:

-c, --category-name

        Write names of selected categories.
-k, --keyword-name 

        Write names and values of selected keywords.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

LC_CTYPE

        Character classification and case conversion.
LC_COLLATE 

        Collation order.
LC_TIME 

        Date and time formats.
LC_NUMERIC 

        Non-monetary numeric formats.
LC_MONETARY 

        Monetary formats.
LC_MESSAGES
        Formats of informative and diagnostic messages and         interactive responses.

AUTHOR

locale is written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.

This manpage is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

March 2001 3rd Berkeley Distribution