localehelper - generate locales and set internationalization
environment variables
localehelper [-x locale[,locale...]]
[intvar=locale[,locale-fallback...]]... [--]
commandline
localehelper {-h | --help}
- 1. Set each internationalization environment variable to locale
(possibly falling back to locale-fallback).
- 2. Unset all other internationalization environment variables.
- 3. If needed, generate missing locales (in a temporary location).
- 4. Run the specified command.
- -x
locale[,locale...]
- Make sure these locales are available, even when they are not used in any
internationalization environment variable.
- -h, --help
- Display help and exit.
The following environment variables can be set or unset by
localehelper:
- LANG
- fall-back for LC_* variables
- LC_COLLATE
- affects regular expression matching and string collation.
- LC_CTYPE
- affects regular expression matching, character classification, conversion,
case-sensitive comparison, and wide character functions
- LC_MESSAGES
- affects natural-language messages
- LC_MONETARY
- affects monetary formatting
- LC_NUMERIC
- affects number formatting
- LC_TIME
- affects time and date formatting
- other
LC_*
- may affect other linguistic and cultural aspects
- LC_ALL
- overrides all LC_*
- LANGUAGE
- affects natural-language messages
The following environment variables may be used by users to
announce specific localization requirements to applications, but are left
intact by localehelper:
- NLSPATH
- message catalogue path for catopen(3)
- TEXTDOMAIN
- message catalogue domain for gettext(1)
- TEXTDOMAINDIR
- message catalogue directory for gettext(1)
$ localehelper LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 locale mon | xargs -n1 -d ';'
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre
- locale(7)
- POSIX:2004
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02>
- GNU gettext manual
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Setting-the-POSIX-Locale.html>