"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<refentry id="localectl" conditional='ENABLE_LOCALED'
<refentryinfo>
<title>localectl</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+ <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Commands</title>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>status</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Show current settings of the system locale and
- keyboard mapping.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Show current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping.
+ If no command is specified, this is the implied default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>set-locale LOCALE...</command></term>
+ <term><command>set-locale LOCALE</command></term>
+ <term><command>set-locale VARIABLE=LOCALEā¦</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Set the system locale. This takes one or more
- assignments such as "LANG=de_DE.utf8",
- "LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8", and so on. See
+ <listitem><para>Set the system locale. This takes one locale such as <literal>en_US.UTF-8</literal>, or takes one or more
+ locale assignments such as <literal>LANG=de_DE.utf8</literal>, <literal>LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8</literal>, and so on. If
+ one locale without variable name is provided, then <literal>LANG=</literal> locale variable will be set. See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>locale</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details on the available settings and their meanings. Use
<command>list-locales</command> for a list of available
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mkinitrd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>mkinitrd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>