locale — Get locale-specific information
locale  [-amvhV]
locale  [-ck]  NAME 
locale  [-iusfnU]
locale    -h  |   -V  
System information:
  -a, --all-locales    List all available supported locales
  -m, --charmaps       List all available character maps
  -v, --verbose        More verbose output
Modify output format:
  -c, --category-name  List information about given category NAME
  -k, --keyword-name   Print information about given keyword NAME
Default locale information:
  -i, --input          Print current input locale
  -u, --user           Print locale of user's default UI language
  -s, --system         Print locale of system default UI language
  -f, --format         Print locale of user's regional format settings
                       (time, numeric & monetary)
  -n, --no-unicode     Print system default locale for non-Unicode programs
  -U, --utf            Attach \".UTF-8\" to the result
Other options:
  -h, --help           This text
  -V, --version        Print program version and exit
locale without parameters prints information about the current locale environment settings.
The -i, -u,
      -s, -f, and -n
      options can be used to request the various Windows locale settings. The
      purpose is to use this command in scripts to set the POSIX locale
      variables.
The -i option prints the current input language.
      This is called the "Input language" and basically equivalent to the
      current keyboard layout setting.
The -u option prints the current user's Windows UI
      locale to stdout. In Windows this setting is called the
      "Display Language".
The -s option prints the systems default instead.
    
The -f option prints the user's setting for time,
      date, number and currency. That's equivalent to the setting in the
      "Formats" or "Regional Options" tab in the "Region and Language" or
      "Regional and Language Options" dialog.
The -n option prints the system's default
      language used for applications which don't support Unicode.
With the -U option locale
      appends the string ".UTF-8" to enforce using UTF-8.  Using UTF-8
      as codeset is recommended.
Usage example:
bash$ export LANG=$(locale -uU) bash$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 bash$ export LC_TIME=$(locale -fU) bash$ echo $LC_TIME de_DE.UTF-8
The -a option is helpful to learn which locales
      are supported by your Windows machine. It prints all available locales
      and the allowed modifiers. Example:
bash$ locale -a C C.utf8 POSIX af_ZA af_ZA.utf8 am_ET am_ET.utf8 ... be_BY be_BY.utf8 be_BY@latin ... ca_ES ca_ES.utf8 ca_ES@euro catalan ...
The -v option prints more detailed information
      about each available locale. Example:
bash$ locale -av locale: af_ZA archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language | Afrikaans territory | South Africa codeset | ISO-8859-1 locale: af_ZA.utf8 archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language | Afrikaans territory | South Africa codeset | UTF-8 ... locale: ca_ES@euro archive: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language | Catalan territory | Spain codeset | ISO-8859-15 locale: catalan archive: /usr/share/locale/locale.alias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- language | Catalan territory | Spain codeset | ISO-8859-1 ...
The -m option prints the names of the available
      charmaps supported by Cygwin to stdout.
Otherwise, if arguments are given, locale prints
      the values assigned to these arguments. Arguments can be names of locale
      categories (for instance: LC_CTYPE, LC_MONETARY), or names of keywords
      supported in the locale categories (for instance: thousands_sep,
      charmap). The -c option prints additionally the name
      of the category. The -k option prints additionally the
      name of the keyword. Example:
bash$ locale -ck LC_MESSAGES
LC_MESSAGES
yesexpr="^[yY]"
noexpr="^[nN]"
yesstr="yes"
nostr="no"
messages-codeset="UTF-8"
bash$ locale noexpr
^[nN]