Recipe 16.2 Listing Available Locales
16.2.1 Problem
You want to know what locales your
system supports.
16.2.2 Solution
Use the locale program to list available locales;
locale -a prints the locales your system
supports.
16.2.3 Discussion
On Linux and Solaris systems, you
can find locale at
/usr/bin/locale. On Windows, locales are listed in the
Regional Options section of the Control Panel.
Your mileage varies on other operating systems.
BSD,
for example, includes locale support but has no
locale program to list locales. BSD locales are
often stored in /usr/share/locale, so looking in
that directory may yield a list of usable locales.
While the locale system helps with many localization tasks, its lack
of standardization can be frustrating. Systems
aren't guaranteed to have the same locales or even
use the same names for equivalent locales.
16.2.4 See Also
Your system's locale(1) manpage.
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