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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 information
     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 in-
     ternal status.

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

     The following options are available:

     -a      Print names of all available locales.  While looking  for	locales,
	     locale  will  respect the PATH_LOCALE environment variable, and use
	     it instead of the system's default locale directory.

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

     -k      Print  the  names	and values of all selected keywords.  If no key-
	     words are selected, print the names and values of all defined  key-
	     words.

     -m      Print names of all available charmaps.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
     The special (FreeBSD specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve the hu-
     man 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 emu-
     lates the -m option using the CODESETs listing of all available locales.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	November 18, 2012		       LOCALE(1)

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