LOCALEHELPER

NAME

localehelper - generate locales and set internationalization environment variables

SYNOPSIS

localehelper [-x locale[,locale...]] [intvar=locale[,locale-fallback...]]... [--] commandline

localehelper {-h | --help}

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-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.

ENVIRONMENT

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)

EXAMPLES

$ localehelper LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 locale mon | xargs -n1 -d ';'
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre

SEE ALSO

	•		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>