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| <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>locale</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="cygwin-ug-net.html" title="Cygwin User's Guide"><link rel="up" href="using-utils.html" title="Cygwin Utilities"><link rel="prev" href="ldd.html" title="ldd"><link rel="next" href="lsattr.html" title="lsattr"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">locale</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ldd.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Cygwin Utilities</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lsattr.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="locale"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>locale — Get locale-specific information</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">locale</code> [-amvhV]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">locale</code> [-ck] <em class="replaceable"><code>NAME</code></em> </p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">locale</code> [-iusfnU]</p></div><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">locale</code> -h | -V </p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="locale-options"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen"> |
| System information: |
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| -a, --all-locales List all available supported locales |
| -m, --charmaps List all available character maps |
| -v, --verbose More verbose output |
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| Modify output format: |
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| -c, --category-name List information about given category NAME |
| -k, --keyword-name Print information about given keyword NAME |
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| Default locale information: |
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| -i, --input Print current input locale |
| -u, --user Print locale of user's default UI language |
| -s, --system Print locale of system default UI language |
| -f, --format Print locale of user's regional format settings |
| (time, numeric & monetary) |
| -n, --no-unicode Print system default locale for non-Unicode programs |
| -U, --utf Attach \".UTF-8\" to the result |
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| Other options: |
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| -h, --help This text |
| -V, --version Print program version and exit |
| </pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="locale-desc"></a><h2>Description</h2><p><span class="command"><strong>locale</strong></span> without parameters prints information about |
| the current locale environment settings.</p><p>The <code class="literal">-i</code>, <code class="literal">-u</code>, |
| <code class="literal">-s</code>, <code class="literal">-f</code>, and <code class="literal">-n</code> |
| options can be used to request the various Windows locale settings. The |
| purpose is to use this command in scripts to set the POSIX locale |
| variables.</p><p>The <code class="literal">-i</code> option prints the current input language. |
| This is called the "Input language" and basically equivalent to the |
| current keyboard layout setting.</p><p>The <code class="literal">-u</code> option prints the current user's Windows UI |
| locale to stdout. In Windows this setting is called the |
| "Display Language".</p><p>The <code class="literal">-s</code> option prints the systems default instead. |
| </p><p>The <code class="literal">-f</code> option prints the user's setting for time, |
| date, number and currency. That's equivalent to the setting in the |
| "Formats" or "Regional Options" tab in the "Region and Language" or |
| "Regional and Language Options" dialog.</p><p>The <code class="literal">-n</code> option prints the system's default |
| language used for applications which don't support Unicode.</p><p>With the <code class="literal">-U</code> option <span class="command"><strong>locale</strong></span> |
| appends the string ".UTF-8" to enforce using UTF-8. Using UTF-8 |
| as codeset is recommended.</p><p>Usage example:</p><pre class="screen"> |
| bash$ export LANG=$(locale -uU) |
| bash$ echo $LANG |
| en_US.UTF-8 |
| bash$ export LC_TIME=$(locale -fU) |
| bash$ echo $LC_TIME |
| de_DE.UTF-8 |
| </pre><p>The <code class="literal">-a</code> option is helpful to learn which locales |
| are supported by your Windows machine. It prints all available locales |
| and the allowed modifiers. Example:</p><pre class="screen"> |
| bash$ locale -a |
| C |
| C.utf8 |
| POSIX |
| af_ZA |
| af_ZA.utf8 |
| am_ET |
| am_ET.utf8 |
| ... |
| be_BY |
| be_BY.utf8 |
| be_BY@latin |
| ... |
| ca_ES |
| ca_ES.utf8 |
| ca_ES@euro |
| catalan |
| ... |
| </pre><p>The <code class="literal">-v</code> option prints more detailed information |
| about each available locale. Example:</p><pre class="screen"> |
| bash$ locale -av |
| locale: af_ZA archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| language | Afrikaans |
| territory | South Africa |
| codeset | ISO-8859-1 |
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| locale: af_ZA.utf8 archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| language | Afrikaans |
| territory | South Africa |
| codeset | UTF-8 |
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| ... |
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| locale: ca_ES@euro archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| language | Catalan |
| territory | Spain |
| codeset | ISO-8859-15 |
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| locale: catalan archive: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| language | Catalan |
| territory | Spain |
| codeset | ISO-8859-1 |
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| ... |
| </pre><p>The <code class="literal">-m</code> option prints the names of the available |
| charmaps supported by Cygwin to stdout.</p><p>Otherwise, if arguments are given, <span class="command"><strong>locale</strong></span> prints |
| the values assigned to these arguments. Arguments can be names of locale |
| categories (for instance: LC_CTYPE, LC_MONETARY), or names of keywords |
| supported in the locale categories (for instance: thousands_sep, |
| charmap). The <code class="literal">-c</code> option prints additionally the name |
| of the category. The <code class="literal">-k</code> option prints additionally the |
| name of the keyword. Example:</p><pre class="screen"> |
| bash$ locale -ck LC_MESSAGES |
| LC_MESSAGES |
| yesexpr="^[yY]" |
| noexpr="^[nN]" |
| yesstr="yes" |
| nostr="no" |
| messages-codeset="UTF-8" |
| bash$ locale noexpr |
| ^[nN] |
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