LOCALE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual LOCALE(1)
NAME
locale - get locale-specific information
SYNOPSIS
locale [-a | -m]
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 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.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
Special (FreeBSD- / NetBSD-specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve
a human readable list of available keywords.
DIAGNOSTICS
The locale utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
locale conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1").
HISTORY
locale first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.
AUTHORS
This implementation of locale was originally written by Alexey Zelkin
<
[email protected]> for FreeBSD.
BUGS
Since NetBSD does not support charmaps in their POSIX meaning locale
emulates the -m option via CODESETs listing of all available locales.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 July 4, 2003 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8