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LOCALE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual LOCALE(1)
NAME
locale - get locale-specific information
SYNOPSIS
locale [-a | -m]
locale -k list [prefix]
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, subject to the environment settings and
internal status.
When locale is invoked with the keyword arguments, and no options are
specified, it will print out the values of all keywords specified, using
the current locale settings.
The following options are available:
-a Print names of all available locales. While looking for locales,
locale will respect the PATH_LOCALE environment variable, and use
it instead of the system's default locale directory.
-c Print the category name for all selected keywords. If no
keywords are selected, print the category name for all defined
keywords.
-k Print the names and values of all selected keywords. If no
keywords are selected, print the names and values of all defined
keywords.
-m Print names of all available charmaps.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The special (FreeBSD specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve the
human readable list of all available keywords. If so, a prefix string
can be defined to limit the amount of keywords returned.
EXIT STATUS
The locale utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
setlocale(3)
STANDARDS
The locale utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 ("POSIX.1"). The
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES and NLSPATH environment variables are not
interpreted.
BUGS
Since FreeBSD does not support charmaps in their POSIX meaning, locale
emulates the -m option using the CODESETs listing of all available
locales.