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LOCALE(1)		    General Commands Manual		     LOCALE(1)

NAME
       locale -- get locale-specific information

SYNOPSIS
       locale [-a | -m]
       locale -k list [prefix]
       locale [-ck] [keyword ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The locale utility is supposed to provide most locale specific informa-
       tion to the standard output.

       When  locale  is	invoked	without	arguments, it will print out a summary
       of the current locale environment, subject to the environment  settings
       and internal status.

       When  locale  is	invoked	with the keyword arguments, and	no options are
       specified, it will print	out the	values of all keywords specified,  us-
       ing the current locale settings.

       The following options are available:

       -a      Print  names  of	 all available locales.	 While looking for lo-
	       cales, locale will respect the  PATH_LOCALE  environment	 vari-
	       able,  and use it instead of the	system's default locale	direc-
	       tory.

       -c      Print the category name for all selected	keywords.  If no  key-
	       words  are  selected,  print  the category name for all defined
	       keywords.

       -k      Print the names and values of all  selected  keywords.	If  no
	       keywords	 are  selected,	 print the names and values of all de-
	       fined keywords.

       -m      Print names of all available charmaps.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
       The special (FreeBSD specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve the
       human readable list of all available keywords.  If so, a	prefix	string
       can be defined to limit the amount of keywords returned.

EXIT STATUS
       The locale utility exits	0 on success, and >0 if	an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
       setlocale(3)

STANDARDS
       The  locale  utility conforms to	IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 ("POSIX.1").  The
       LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES and NLSPATH environment variables are not	inter-
       preted.

BUGS
       Since  FreeBSD does not support charmaps	in their POSIX meaning,	locale
       emulates	the -m option using the	CODESETs listing of all	available  lo-
       cales.

FreeBSD	13.2		       November	18, 2012		     LOCALE(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | IMPLEMENTATION NOTES | EXIT STATUS | SEE ALSO | STANDARDS | BUGS

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