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locale

locale [options] [name ...]

Solaris only. Print locale-specific information. With no arguments, locale summarizes the current locale. Depending on the arguments, locale prints information about entire locale categories or the value of specific items within a locale. A public locale is one an application can access. See also localedef.

Options

-a

Print information about all available public locales. The POSIX locale should always be available.

-c

Provide information about the locale category name. Useful with or without -k.

-k

Print the names and values of the given locale keywords.

-m

Print the names of the available charmaps.


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