localehelper(1)

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: Show help message 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