localehelper(1) 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

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