1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd November 18, 2012 27.Dt LOCALE 1 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm locale 31.Nd get locale-specific information 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Nm 34.Op Fl a | m 35.Nm 36.Fl k 37.Ic list 38.Op Ar prefix 39.Nm 40.Op Fl ck 41.Op Ar keyword ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility is supposed to provide most locale specific information to 46the standard output. 47.Pp 48When 49.Nm 50is invoked without arguments, it will print out a summary of the current 51locale environment, subject to the environment settings and 52internal status. 53.Pp 54When 55.Nm 56is invoked with the 57.Ar keyword 58arguments, and no options are specified, it will print out the 59values of all keywords specified, using the current locale settings. 60.Pp 61The following options are available: 62.Bl -tag -width indent 63.It Fl a 64Print names of all available locales. 65While looking for locales, 66.Nm 67will respect the 68.Ev PATH_LOCALE 69environment variable, and use it instead of the system's default locale 70directory. 71.It Fl c 72Print the category name for all selected keywords. 73If no keywords are selected, print the category name for all defined 74keywords. 75.It Fl k 76Print the names and values of all selected keywords. 77If no keywords are selected, print the names and values of all defined 78keywords. 79.It Fl m 80Print names of all available charmaps. 81.El 82.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 83The special 84.Pf ( Fx 85specific) keyword 86.Cm list 87can be used to retrieve the human readable list of all available keywords. 88If so, 89a prefix string can be defined to limit the amount of keywords returned. 90.Sh EXIT STATUS 91.Ex -std 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr setlocale 3 94.Sh STANDARDS 95The 96.Nm 97utility conforms to 98.St -p1003.1-2004 . 99The 100.Ev LC_CTYPE , 101.Ev LC_MESSAGES 102and 103.Ev NLSPATH 104environment variables are not interpreted. 105.Sh BUGS 106Since 107.Fx 108does not support 109.Em charmap Ns s 110in their 111.Tn POSIX 112meaning, 113.Nm 114emulates the 115.Fl m 116option using the CODESETs listing of all available locales. 117