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locale(1) locale(1)
NAME
locale - get locale-specific (NLS) information
SYNOPSIS
locale [ -a [ 32 | 64 ] 
-A  -m ]
locale [ -ck ] name ...
locale [ -pa32 ][-pa64 ]
DESCRIPTION
The
locale command displays information about the current locale or about available locales.
When invoked without arguments,
locale displays the name and actual or implied value of each of the
locale-related environment variables in the order shown below, one per line:
LANG
LC_CTYPE
LC_COLLATE
LC_MONETARY
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME
LC_MESSAGES
LC_ALL
An actual value is the value the variable actually has in the user’s environment. An implied value is
derived from the value of another variable. Implied values are displayed enclosed in double quotes, while
actual values are unquoted.
The determination of implied values is that if the variable
LC_ALL is present and has a non-null value,
that is the actual value for
LC_ALL, and all of the other variables take its value as an implied value. If
LC_ALL is not set, all of the LC_* variables that are set are shown with their value as an actual value.
Any that have no value are shown with the value of the LANG environment variable as their implied
value. LC_ALL is displayed as LC_ALL=\n if it has no value. If LC_ALL is set to NULL or to an invalid
string, all of the LC_* variables are set to the default "C" locale.
The value of
LC_ALL has precedence over any one of the environment variables LC_* and LANG
.If
LC_* environment variables are not defined, LANG provides the default. See catopen (3C) for more
details.
The
locale command can take multiple arguments, which may be locale category names, locale key-
words, or the special word charmap (see localedef (1M) for a description of locale keywords and char-
maps). If an argument is a keyword, the value associated with that keyword in the current environment
is displayed and possibly other information, depending on selected options. If an argument is a category
name (i.e., LC_*), the values of all keywords defined in that category are displayed. If an argument is
the special word charmap, the charmap file (if any) that was used in the definition of the current locale
is displayed.
Non-printable characters are printed as hexadecimal values in the form,
\xhh
except that if a different escape character has been defined for the locale, it is displayed instead of the "\".
Options
The following options are available:
-a List all available locales. These are the possible meaningful values that can be assigned
to LANG or any of the LC_* variables on the system. They are dependent upon which
locales have been installed on the system. By default on a PA-RISC system, the locales in
/usr/lib/nls/loc/locales are listed. By default on an Itanium(R)-based system,
the locales in /usr/lib/nls/loc/hpux32/locales are listed. This option takes
32 (for ILP32, 32-bit int, long, pointer, 32-bit offset) or 64 (for LP64, 64-bit long, pointer,
64-bit offset) as its argument.
-a Display 32-bit locales for PA-RISC and Itanium-based systems.
-a 32 Display 32-bit locales for PA-RISC and Itanium-based systems.
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