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1.5     ! zhuk       17: .Dd $Mdocdate: March 24 2014 $
1.1       stsp       18: .Dt LOCALE 1
                     19: .Os
                     20: .Sh NAME
                     21: .Nm locale
                     22: .Nd get locale-specific information
                     23: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     24: .Nm locale
                     25: .Op Fl a | Fl m
                     26: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     27: If
                     28: .Nm
                     29: is invoked without any arguments, the current locale configuration is shown.
                     30: .Pp
                     31: The options are as follows:
                     32: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                     33: .It Fl a
                     34: Display a list of supported locales.
                     35: .It Fl m
                     36: Display a list of supported character sets.
                     37: .El
                     38: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     39: The locale configuration consists of the following environment variables:
1.2       jmc        40: .Pp
                     41: .Bl -tag -width LC_MONETARYXXX -compact
1.1       stsp       42: .It Dv LC_ALL
                     43: Overrides all other LC_* variables below.
                     44: .It Dv LC_COLLATE
                     45: Locale for string collation routines.
                     46: .It Dv LC_CTYPE
                     47: Locale for character set.
1.5     ! zhuk       48: .It Dv LC_MESSAGES
        !            49: Locale for message strings.
1.1       stsp       50: .It Dv LC_MONETARY
                     51: Locale for formatting monetary values.
                     52: .It Dv LC_NUMERIC
                     53: Locale for formatting numbers.
                     54: .It Dv LC_TIME
                     55: Locale for formatting dates and times.
                     56: .It Dv LANG
                     57: Fallback if any of the above is unset.
                     58: .El
1.4       jmc        59: .Sh EXIT STATUS
                     60: .Ex -std locale
1.1       stsp       61: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     62: .Xr setlocale 3
                     63: .Sh STANDARDS
                     64: The
                     65: .Nm
1.4       jmc        66: utility implements a subset of the
                     67: .St -p1003.1-2008
                     68: specification.
1.3       schwarze   69: .Sh HISTORY
                     70: The
                     71: .Nm
                     72: utility was first standardized in the
                     73: .St -xpg4 .
                     74: .Pp
                     75: It was rewritten from scratch for
                     76: .Ox 5.4
                     77: during the 2013 Toronto hackathon.
                     78: .Sh AUTHORS
1.4       jmc        79: .An -nosplit
1.3       schwarze   80: .An Stefan Sperling Aq Mt stsp@openbsd.org
                     81: with contributions from
                     82: .An Philip Guenther Aq Mt guenther@openbsd.org
                     83: and
                     84: .An Jeremie Courreges-Anglas Aq Mt jca@openbsd.org .
1.1       stsp       85: .Sh BUGS
                     86: The list of supported locales is perpetually incomplete.