Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Name

locale

Synopsis

    locale [options] [name ...]

Print locale-specific information. With no arguments, locale summarizes the current locale. Depending on the arguments, locale prints information about entire locale categories or the value of specific items within a locale. A public locale is one an application can access.

Options

-a, --all-locales

Print information about all available public locales. The POSIX locale should always be available.

-c, --category-name

Provide information about the locale category name. Useful with or without -k.

-k, --keyword-name

Print the names and values of the given locale keywords.

-m, --charmaps

Print the names of the available charmaps.

Environment variables

LANG

The default value for unset internationalization variables. If not set, the system’s default value is used.

LC_ADDRESS

Postal settings, country, and language names and abbreviation.

LC_ALL

When set, overrides the values of all other internationalization variables.

LC_COLLATE

String and character sorting and comparison settings.

LC_CTYPE

Character attributes, including case conversion mappings, and categories of characters (whitespace, digit, lower, upper, punctuation, etc.).

LC_IDENTIFICATION

Information related to the current locale definition, including its title, source, revision, and contact information for its author.

LC_MEASUREMENT

Measurement units, metric or other.

LC_MESSAGES

Settings for yes/no prompts and other informative and diagnostic messages.

LC_MONETARY

Currency formats and symbols.

LC_NAME

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