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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd November 18, 2012 29.Dt LOCALE 1 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm locale 33.Nd get locale-specific information 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl a | m 37.Nm 38.Fl k 39.Ic list 40.Op Ar prefix 41.Nm 42.Op Fl ck 43.Op Ar keyword ... 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47utility is supposed to provide most locale specific information to 48the standard output. 49.Pp 50When 51.Nm 52is invoked without arguments, it will print out a summary of the current 53locale environment, subject to the environment settings and 54internal status. 55.Pp 56When 57.Nm 58is invoked with the 59.Ar keyword 60arguments, and no options are specified, it will print out the 61values of all keywords specified, using the current locale settings. 62.Pp 63The following options are available: 64.Bl -tag -width indent 65.It Fl a 66Print names of all available locales. 67While looking for locales, 68.Nm 69will respect the 70.Ev PATH_LOCALE 71environment variable, and use it instead of the system's default locale 72directory. 73.It Fl c 74Print the category name for all selected keywords. 75If no keywords are selected, print the category name for all defined 76keywords. 77.It Fl k 78Print the names and values of all selected keywords. 79If no keywords are selected, print the names and values of all defined 80keywords. 81.It Fl m 82Print names of all available charmaps. 83.El 84.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES 85The special 86.Pf ( Fx 87specific) keyword 88.Cm list 89can be used to retrieve the human readable list of all available keywords. 90If so, 91a prefix string can be defined to limit the amount of keywords returned. 92.Sh EXIT STATUS 93.Ex -std 94.Sh SEE ALSO 95.Xr setlocale 3 96.Sh STANDARDS 97The 98.Nm 99utility conforms to 100.St -p1003.1-2004 . 101The 102.Ev LC_CTYPE , 103.Ev LC_MESSAGES 104and 105.Ev NLSPATH 106environment variables are not interpreted. 107.Sh BUGS 108Since 109.Fx 110does not support 111.Em charmap Ns s 112in their 113.Tn POSIX 114meaning, 115.Nm 116emulates the 117.Fl m 118option using the CODESETs listing of all available locales. 119