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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

These environment variables affect each locale categories for all locale-aware programs:

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.
LC_PAPER 
         Paper size.
LC_NAME 
         Name formats.
LC_ADDRESS 
         Address formats and location information.
LC_TELEPHONE 
         Telephone number formats.
LC_MEASUREMENT 
         Measurement units (Metric or Other).
LC_IDENTIFICATION 
         Metadata about the locale information.
This environment variable can switch against multiple locale database:

LOCPATH

         The directory where locale data is stored.  By default, /usr/lib/locale is used.

FILES

/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
List of supported values (and their associated encoding) for the locale name. This representation is recommended over --all-locales one, due being the system wide supported values.

AUTHOR

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

This manpage was written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and expanded by Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>

SEE ALSO

locale(5), locale(7), setlocale(3)