NAME

       localehelper - generate locales and set internationalization environment variables

SYNOPSIS

       localehelper [-x locale[,locale...]] [intvar=locale[,locale-fallback...]]... [--]
       commandline

       localehelper {-h | --help}

DESCRIPTION

       1. Set each internationalization environment variable to locale (possibly falling back to
       locale-fallback).
       2. Unset all other internationalization environment variables.
       3. If needed, generate missing locales (in a temporary location).
       4. Run the specified command.

OPTIONS

       -x locale[,locale...]
           Make sure these locales are available, even when they are not used in any
           internationalization environment variable.

       -h, --help
           Display help and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables can be set or unset by localehelper:

       LANG
           fall-back for LC_* variables

       LC_COLLATE
           affects regular expression matching and string collation.

       LC_CTYPE
           affects regular expression matching, character classification, conversion, case-
           sensitive comparison, and wide character functions

       LC_MESSAGES
           affects natural-language messages

       LC_MONETARY
           affects monetary formatting

       LC_NUMERIC
           affects number formatting

       LC_TIME
           affects time and date formatting

       other LC_*
           may affect other linguistic and cultural aspects

       LC_ALL
           overrides all LC_*

       LANGUAGE
           affects natural-language messages

       The following environment variables may be used by users to announce specific localization
       requirements to applications, but are left intact by localehelper:

       NLSPATH
           message catalogue path for catopen(3)

       TEXTDOMAIN
           message catalogue domain for gettext(1)

       TEXTDOMAINDIR
           message catalogue directory for gettext(1)

EXAMPLES

        $ localehelper LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 locale mon | xargs -n1 -d ';'
        enero
        febrero
        marzo
        abril
        mayo
        junio
        julio
        agosto
        septiembre
        octubre
        noviembre
        diciembre

SEE ALSO

       • locale(7)

       • POSIX:2004
         <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02>

       • GNU gettext manual <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Setting-the-
         POSIX-Locale.html>