LOCALE(1) CYGWIN LOCALE(1)NAME
- Get locale-specific information.
SYNOPSISlocale [-amsuUvh]
locale [-ck] NAME
OPTIONS-a, --all-locales
List all available supported locales
-c, --category-name
List information about given category NAME
-k, --keyword-name
Print information about given keyword NAME
-m, --charmaps
List all available character maps
-s, --system
Print system default locale-u, --user
Print user's default locale-U, --utf
Attach ".UTF-8" to the result
-v, --verbose
More verbose output
-h, --help
This text
DESCRIPTIONlocale without parameters prints information about the current locale
environment settings.
The -u option prints the current user's Windows default locale to std‐
out. The -s option prints the systems default locale instead. With
the -U option locale appends a ".UTF-8". This can be used in scripts
to set the Cygwin locale to the Windows user or system default, for
instance:
bash$ export LANG=$(locale -uU)
bash$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
The -a option is helpful to learn which locales are supported by your
Windows machine. It prints all available locales and the allowed modi‐
fiers. Example:
bash$ 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
The -v option prints more detailed information about each available
locale. Example:
bash$ locale-av
locale: af_ZA archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/ker‐
nel32.dll
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
language | Afrikaans
territory | South Africa
codeset | ISO-8859-1
locale: af_ZA.utf8 archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/ker‐
nel32.dll
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
language | Afrikaans
territory | South Africa
codeset | UTF-8
locale: ca_ES@euro archive: /mnt/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
language | Catalan
territory | Spain
codeset | ISO-8859-15
locale: catalan archive: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
language | Catalan
territory | Spain
codeset | ISO-8859-1
The -m option prints the names of the available charmaps supported by
Cygwin to stdout.
Otherwise, if arguments are given, locale 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 -c
option prints additionally the name of the category. The -k option
prints additionally the name of the keyword. Example:
bash$ locale-ck LC_MESSAGES
LC_MESSAGES
yesexpr="^[yY]"
noexpr="^[nN]"
yesstr="yes"
nostr="no"
messages-codeset="UTF-8"
bash$ locale noexpr
^[nN]
COPYRIGHT
Cygwin is Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
Cygwin is Free software; for complete licensing information, refer to:
http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
SEE ALSO
The full documentation to the Cygwin API is maintained on the web at:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html
The website is updated more frequently than the man pages and should be
considered the authoritative source of information.
April 2010 LOCALE(1)
