Displays information about the locales and charmaps on the system.
Format:
LOCALE SHOW option
1 – CHARACTER_DEFINITIONS
Lists all the character set description files (charmaps) in the
public directory defined by the logical name SYS$I18N_LOCALE. A
charmap defines symbolic names and values of characters in a coded
character set. Charmaps are used by the LOCALE COMPILE command
when compiling a locale. A charmap file has the file type .CMAP.
Format:
LOCALE SHOW CHARACTER_DEFINITIONS
2 – CURRENT
Displays a summary of the current international environment, as
defined by several international environment logical names.
Format:
LOCALE SHOW CURRENT
3 – PUBLIC
Lists all public locales on the system. The set of public locales
contains all locales that reside in the directory defined by the
logical name SYS$I18N_LOCALE, as well as the system's built-in
locales supplied with the VSI C run-time library.
Format:
LOCALE SHOW PUBLIC
4 – VALUE
Displays the value of one or more keywords from the current
international environment.
Format:
LOCALE SHOW VALUE name[,...]
4.1 – Parameter
name[,...]
The name of a keyword or category. If you specify a keyword,
the value of that keyword in the current locale is displayed.
If you specify a category, the values of the keywords in that
category are displayed. For integer keywords that have no value
assigned, the value CHAR_MAX (127) is displayed. When a keyword
value includes semicolons, double-quotes, backslashes, or
control characters, they are preceded by an escape character
(usually a backslash).
5 – Qualifiers
5.1 /CATEGORY
/[NO]CATEGORY
/NOCATEGORY (D)
Displays the category name before each keyword. If /CATEGORY is
omitted, the category name is not displayed.
5.2 /KEYWORD
/[NO]KEYWORD
/NOKEYWORD (D)
Displays the keyword name before the value of a keyword. If
/KEYWORD is omitted, the value of the keyword is displayed, but
not its name.