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25 .TH LOCALE 1 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux User Manual"
27 locale \- get locale-specific information
30 .BR locale " [\fIoption\fP]"
31 .BR locale " [\fIoption\fP] " \-a
32 .BR locale " [\fIoption\fP] " \-m
33 .BR locale " [\fIoption\fP] \fIname\fP..."
38 command displays information about the current locale, or all locales,
41 When invoked without arguments,
43 displays the current locale settings for each locale category (see
45 based on the settings of the environment variables that control the locale
48 Values for variables set in the environment are printed without double
49 quotes, implied values are printed with double quotes.
55 option (or one of their long-format equivalents) is specified,
56 the behavior is as follows:
58 .BR \-a ", " \-\-all\-locales
59 Display a list of all available locales.
64 metadata about each locale to be included in the output.
66 .BR \-m ", " \-\-charmaps
67 Display the available charmaps (character set description files).
68 To display the current character set for the locale, use
69 \fBlocale \-c charmap\fR.
73 command can also be provided with one or more arguments,
74 which are the names of locale keywords (for example,
76 .IR ctype\-class\-names ,
80 or locale categories (for example,
84 For each argument, the following is displayed:
86 For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
88 For a locale category,
89 the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.
91 When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
93 .BR \-c ", " \-\-category\-name
94 For a category name argument,
95 write the name of the locale category
96 on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for that category.
98 For a keyword name argument,
99 write the name of the locale category for this keyword
100 on a separate line preceding the keyword value.
102 This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified.
103 It can be combined with the
107 .BR \-k ", " \-\-keyword\-name
108 For each keyword whose value is being displayed,
109 include also the name of that keyword,
110 so that the output has the format:
112 \fIkeyword\fP="\fIvalue\fP"
116 command also knows about the following options:
118 .BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
119 Display additional information for some command-line option and argument
122 .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
123 Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.
126 Display a short usage message and exit.
128 .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
129 Display the program version and exit.
132 .I /usr/lib/locale/locale\-archive
133 Usual default locale archive location.
135 .I /usr/share/i18n/locales
136 Usual default path for locale definition files.
138 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
143 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF\-8"
144 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF\-8"
145 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF\-8"
146 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF\-8"
147 LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF\-8"
148 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF\-8"
149 LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF\-8"
150 LC_NAME="en_US.UTF\-8"
151 LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF\-8"
152 LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF\-8"
153 LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF\-8"
154 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF\-8"
157 $ \fBlocale date_fmt\fP
158 %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
160 $ \fBlocale \-k date_fmt\fP
161 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
163 $ \fBlocale \-ck date_fmt\fP
165 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
167 $ \fBlocale LC_TELEPHONE\fP
174 $ \fBlocale \-k LC_TELEPHONE\fP
175 tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
176 tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
179 telephone\-codeset="UTF\-8"
182 The following example compiles a custom locale from the
188 directory, then tests the result with the
190 command, and then sets the environment variables
194 in the shell profile file so that the custom locale will be used in the
195 subsequent user sessions:
198 $ \fBmkdir \-p $HOME/.locale\fP
199 $ \fBI18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef \-f UTF\-8 \-i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF\-8\fP
200 $ \fBLOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF\-8 date\fP
201 $ \fBecho "export LOCPATH=\e$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP
202 $ \fBecho "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF\-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP