NAME 

locale - Get locale-specific information.

SYNOPSIS 

locale [ -a | -m]

locale [ -ck ] name...

DESCRIPTION 

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

When invoked without arguments, locale summarizes the current locale 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.

Output Format: 

-c, --category-name 
        Write names of selected categories.
-k, --keyword-name 
        Write names and values of selected keywords.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 

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
Formats of informative and diagnostic messages and interactive responses.

AUTHOR 

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

This manpage is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.