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LOCALE(1) Linux User Manual LOCALE(1)
locale - get locale-specific information
locale [option]
locale [option] -a
locale [option] -m
locale [option] name...
The locale command displays information about the current locale, or
all locales, on standard output.
When invoked without arguments, locale displays the current locale
settings for each locale category (see locale(5)), based on the
settings of the environment variables that control the locale (see
locale(7)). Values for variables set in the environment are printed
without double quotes, implied values are printed with double quotes.
If either the -a or the -m option (or one of their long-format
equivalents) is specified, the behavior is as follows:
-a, --all-locales
Display a list of all available locales. The -v option causes
the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata about each locale to be
included in the output.
-m, --charmaps
Display the available charmaps (character set description
files). To display the current character set for the locale,
use locale -c charmap.
The locale command can also be provided with one or more arguments,
which are the names of locale keywords (for example, date_fmt, ctype-
class-names, yesexpr, or decimal_point) or locale categories (for
example, LC_CTYPE or LC_TIME). For each argument, the following is
displayed:
* For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
* For a locale category, the values of all keywords in that category
are displayed.
When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
-c, --category-name
For a category name argument, write the name of the locale
category on a separate line preceding the list of keyword
values for that category.
For a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale
category for this keyword on a separate line preceding the
keyword value.
This option improves readability when multiple name arguments
are specified. It can be combined with the -k option.
-k, --keyword-name
For each keyword whose value is being displayed, include also
the name of that keyword, so that the output has the format:
keyword="value"
The locale command also knows about the following options:
-v, --verbose
Display additional information for some command-line option
and argument combinations.
-?, --help
Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and
exit.
--usage
Display a short usage message and exit.
-V, --version
Display the program version and exit.
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
Usual default locale archive location.
/usr/share/i18n/locales
Usual default path for locale definition files.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ locale date_fmt
%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
$ locale -k date_fmt
date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
$ locale -ck date_fmt
LC_TIME
date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
$ locale LC_TELEPHONE
+%c (%a) %l
(%a) %l
11
1
UTF-8
$ locale -k LC_TELEPHONE
tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
int_select="11"
int_prefix="1"
telephone-codeset="UTF-8"
The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk
directory with the localedef(1) utility under the $HOME/.locale
directory, then tests the result with the date(1) command, and then
sets the environment variables LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profile
file so that the custom locale will be used in the subsequent user
sessions:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale
$ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8
$ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date
$ echo "export LOCPATH=\$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc
localedef(1), charmap(5), locale(5), locale(7)
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Linux 2016-03-15 LOCALE(1)
Pages that refer to this page: iconv(1), localedef(1), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), nl_langinfo(3), setlocale(3), sysconf(3), uselocale(3), charmap(5), locale(5), repertoiremap(5), locale(7), unicode(7), utf-8(7)