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LOCALE(1)                 BSD General Commands Manual                LOCALE(1)

NAME
     locale -- display locale settings

SYNOPSIS
     locale [-a|m]
     locale [-ck] name [...]

DESCRIPTION
     locale displays information about the current locale, or a list of all available locales.

     When locale is run with no arguments, it will display the current source of each locale category.

     When locale is given the name of a category, it acts as if it had been given each keyword in that cate-gory. category.
     gory.  For each keyword it is given, the current value is displayed.

OPTIONS
     -a       Lists all public locales.

     -c name ...
              Lists the category name before each keyword, unless it is the same category as the previously
              displayed keyword.

     -k name ...
              Displays the name of each keyword prior to its value.

     -m       Lists all available public charmaps.  This is currently an empty list.

OPERANDS
     The following operand is supported:

     name is the name of a keyword or category to display.  A list of all keywords and categories can be
     shown with the following command:

     locale -ck LC_ALL

ENVIRONMENT
     LANG         Used as a substitute for any unset LC_* variable.  If LANG is unset, it will act as if set
                  to "C".  If any of LANG or LC_* are set to invalid values, locale acts as if they are all
                  unset.

     LC_ALL       Will override the setting of all other LC_* variables.

     LC_COLLATE   Sets the locale for the LC_COLLATE category.

     LC_CTYPE     Sets the locale for the LC_CTYPE category.

     LC_MESSAGES  Sets the locale for the LC_MESSAGES category.

     LC_MONETARY  Sets the locale for the LC_MONETARY category.

     LC_NUMERIC   Sets the locale for the LC_NUMERIC category.

     LC_TIME      Sets the locale for the LC_TIME category.

SEE ALSO
     localedef(1), localeconv(3), nl_langinfo(3), setlocale(3)

STANDARDS
     The locale utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY
     locale appeared in Mac OS X 10.4

Darwin                          August 27, 2004                         Darwin