localehelper - generate locales and set internationalization environment variables
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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.
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
Name
localehelper - generate locales and set internationalization environment variables
Options
-xlocale[,locale...]
Make sure these locales are available, even when they are not used in any internationalization
environment variable.
-h, --help
Show help message and exit.
See Also
• locale(7)
• POSIX:2004 <https://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>
localehelper 0.1.7 2025-02-04 LOCALEHELPER(1)
Synopsis
localehelper [-x locale[,locale...]] [intvar=locale[,locale-fallback...]]... [--] commandlinelocalehelper {-h | --help}
