LOCALE(1) | General Commands Manual | LOCALE(1)

# NAME

`locale` —
get locale-specific information

# SYNOPSIS

`locale` | [`-a` | `-m`]

`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 depending on environment variable settings and internal status.

When `locale` is invoked with arguments and no options specified it will print out keyword's value determined using current locale settings.

The following options are available:

`-a`
  Write names of all available locales. While looking for locales `locale` will respect the `PATH_LOCALE` environment variable, and use it instead of the system default locale directory.
`-c`
  Write the category name for the selected keywords.
`-k`
  Write the name and value of the selected keywords.
`-m`
  Write names of all available charmaps.

# IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS

Special (FreeBSD- / NetBSD-specific) keyword list can be used to retrieve a human readable list of available keywords.

# DIAGNOSTICS

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

# STANDARDS

`locale` conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).

# HISTORY

`locale` first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.

# AUTHORS

This implementation of `locale` was originally written by Alexey Zelkin ⟨phantom@FreeBSD.org⟩ for FreeBSD.

# BUGS

Since NetBSD does not support charmap s in their POSIX meaning `locale` emulates the `-m` option via CODESETs listing of all available locales.

July 4, 2003 | NetBSD 9.2