LOCALE

Section: Linux-Mandrake (1)
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locale - Get locale-specific information.

locale [ -a | -m]

locale [ -ck ] name...

The locale program writes information about the current localeenvironment, or all locales, to standard output.

When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the currentlocale environment for each locale category defined by the LC_*environment variables.

-a, --all-locales

        Write names of available locales.

-m, --charmaps

        Write names of available charmaps.

-c, --category-name

        Write names of selected categories.

-k, --keyword-name

        Write names and values of selected keywords.

LC_CTYPE

        Character classification and case conversion.

LC_COLLATE

        Collation order.

LC_TIME

        Date and time formats.

LC_NUMERIC

        Non-monetary numeric formats.

LC_MONETARY

        Monetary formats.

LC_MESSAGES

locale is written by Ulrich Drepper for the GNU C Library.

This manpage is written by Joel Klecker <espyAATTdebian.org> forthe Debian GNU/Linux system.

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