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25 .TH LOCALE 1 2014-05-28 "Linux" "Linux User Manual"
27 locale \- get locale-specific information
30 .BR locale " [OPTION]"
31 .BR locale " [OPTION] \-a"
32 .BR locale " [OPTION] \-m"
33 .BR locale " [OPTION] NAME..."
38 command displays information about the current locale, or all locales,
41 When invoked without arguments,
43 displays the current locale settings for each locale category (see
45 based on the settings of the environment variables that control the locale
53 option (or one of their long-format equivalents) is specified,
54 the behavior is as follows:
56 .BR \-a ", " \-\-all\-locales
57 Display a list of all available locales.
62 metadata about each locale to be included in the output.
64 .BR \-m ", " \-\-charmaps
65 Display the available charmaps (character set description files).
69 command can also be provided with one or more arguments,
70 which are the names of locale keywords (for example,
72 .IR ctype-class-names ,
76 or locale categories (for example,
80 For each argument, the following is displayed:
82 For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
84 For a locale category,
85 the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.
87 When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
89 .BR \-c ", " \-\-category\-name
90 For a category name argument,
91 write the name of the locale category
92 on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for that category.
94 For a keyword name argument,
95 write the name of the locale category for this keyword
96 on a separate line preceding the keyword value.
98 This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified.
99 It can be combined with the
103 .BR \-k ", " \-\-keyword\-name
104 For each keyword whose value is being displayed,
105 include also the name of that keyword,
106 so that the output has the format:
108 \fIkeyword\fP="\fIvalue\fP"
112 command also knows about the following options:
114 .BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
115 Display additional information for some command-line option and argument
118 .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
119 Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.
122 Display a short usage message and exit.
124 .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
125 Display the program version and exit.
128 .I /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
129 Usual default locale archive location.
131 .I /usr/share/i18n/locales
132 Usual default path for locale definition files.
134 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
139 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF\-8"
140 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF\-8"
141 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF\-8"
142 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF\-8"
143 LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF\-8"
144 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF\-8"
145 LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF\-8"
146 LC_NAME="en_US.UTF\-8"
147 LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF\-8"
148 LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF\-8"
149 LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF\-8"
150 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF\-8"
153 $ \fBlocale date_fmt\fP
154 %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
156 $ \fBlocale \-k date_fmt\fP
157 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
159 $ \fBlocale \-ck date_fmt\fP
161 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
163 $ \fBlocale LC_TELEPHONE\fP
170 $ \fBlocale \-k LC_TELEPHONE\fP
171 tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
172 tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
175 telephone\-codeset="UTF\-8"
178 The following example compiles a custom locale from the
184 directory, then tests the result with the
186 command, and then sets the environment variables
190 in the shell profile file so that the custom locale will be used in the
191 subsequent user sessions:
194 $ \fBmkdir -p $HOME/.locale\fP
195 $ \fBI18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8\fP
196 $ \fBLOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date\fP
197 $ \fBecho "export LOCPATH=\\$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP
198 $ \fBecho "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP