NAME

       locale - get locale-specific information

SYNOPSIS

       locale [option]
       locale [option] -a
       locale [option] -m
       locale [option] name...

DESCRIPTION

       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:

       --all-locales
       -a     Display  a  list  of  all  available locales.  The -v option causes the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata
              about each locale to be included in the output.

       --charmaps
       -m     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:

       --category-name
       -c     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.

       --keyword-name
       -k     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:

       --verbose
       -v     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.

       --version
       -V     Display the program version and exit.

FILES

       /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
              Usual default locale archive location.

       /usr/share/i18n/locales
              Usual default path for locale definition files.

STANDARDS

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

       POSIX.1-2001.

EXAMPLES

       $ 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

SEE ALSO

       localedef(1), charmap(5), locale(5), locale(7)