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.\" FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/locale/locale.1,v 1.3 2003/06/26 11:01:03 phantom Exp
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.Dd July 4, 2003
.Dt LOCALE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm locale
.Nd get locale-specific information
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl a | Fl m
.Nm
.Op Fl ck
.Op Ar keyword ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is supposed to provide most locale specific information to
the standard output.
.Pp
When
.Nm
is invoked without arguments it will print out a summary of the
current locale environment depending on environment variable settings
and internal status.
.Pp
When
.Nm
is invoked with arguments and no options specified it will print out
.Em keyword Ns No 's
value determined using current locale settings.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
Write names of all available locales.
While looking for locales
.Nm
will respect the
.Ev PATH_LOCALE
environment variable, and use it instead of the system default
locale directory.
.It Fl c
Write the category name for the selected keywords.
.It Fl k
Write the name and value of the selected keywords.
.It Fl m
Write names of all available charmaps.
.El
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
Special
.Pf ( Fx Ns -
/
.Nx Ns -specific )
keyword
.Ar list
can be used to retrieve a human readable list of available keywords.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Ex -std locale
.Sh STANDARDS
.Nm
conforms to
.St -p1003.1-2001 .
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Nx 2.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This implementation of
.Nm
was originally written by
.An Alexey Zelkin
.Aq phantom@FreeBSD.org
for
.Fx .
.Sh BUGS
Since
.Nx
does not support
.Em charmap Ns No s
in their
.Em POSIX
meaning
.Nm
emulates the
.Fl m
option via CODESETs listing of all available locales.
