User Commands locale(1)
NAME
locale - get locale-specific information
SYNOPSIS
locale [-a -m]
locale [-ck] name...
DESCRIPTION
The locale utility writes information about the current
locale environment, or all public locales, to the standard
output. For the purposes of this section, a public locale is
one provided by the implementation that is accessible to the
application.
When locale is invoked without any arguments, it summarizes
the current locale environment for each locale category as
determined by the settings of the environment variables.
When invoked with operands, it writes values that have been
assigned to the keywords in the locale categories, as fol-
lows:
o Specifying a keyword name selects the named keyword
and the category containing that keyword.
o Specifying a category name selects the named
category and all keywords in that category.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a Writes information about all available public locales.
The available locales include POSIX, representing the
POSIX locale.
-c Writes the names of selected locale categories. The -c
option increases readability when more than one
category is selected (for example, via more than one
keyword name or via a category name). It is valid both
with and without the -k option.
-k Writes the names and values of selected keywords. The
implementation may omit values for some keywords; see
OPERANDS.
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-m Writes names of available charmaps; see localedef(1).
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
name The name of a locale category, the name of a keyword
in a locale category, or the reserved name charmap.
The named category or keyword will be selected for
output. If a single name represents both a locale
category name and a keyword name in the current
locale, the results are unspecified; otherwise, both
category and keyword names can be specified as name
operands, in any sequence.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Examples of the locale utility
In the following examples, the assumption is that locale
environment variables are set as follows:
LANG=localex LCOLATE=localey
The command locale would result in the following output:
LANG=localex
LCTYPE="localex"
LCNUMERIC="localex"
LCTIME="localex"
LCOLATE=localey
LCMONETARY="localex"
LCMESAGES="localex"
LCAL=
The command
LCAL=POSIX locale -ck decimalpoint
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would produce:
LCNUMERIC
decimalpoint="."
The following command shows an application of locale to
determine whether a user-supplied response is affirmative:
if printf "%s\n" "$response" /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -Eq\
"$(locale yesexpr)"
then
affirmative processing goes here
else
non-affirmative processing goes here
fi
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for the descriptions of LANG, LCAL,
LCTYPE, LCMESAGES, and NLSPATH.
The LANG, LC*, and NLSPATH environment variables must
specify the current locale environment to be written out.
These environment variables will be used if the -a option is
not specified.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All the requested information was found and output
successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWloc
CSI Enabled
Interface Stability Standard
SEE ALSO
localedef(1), attributes(5), charmap(5), environ(5),
locale(5), standards(5)
NOTES
If LCTYPE or keywords in the category LCTYPE are speci-
fied, only the values in the range 0x00-0x7f are written
out.
If LCOLATE or keywords in the category LCOLATE are
specified, no actual values are written out.
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