validlocale(8)

📦 version 2.44, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 validlocale(8) 💖

Manual name: validlocale(8). ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

validlocale - Test if a given locale is available 💅

🦋 SYNTAX 🦋

validlocale <locale>

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so validlocale checks whether the locale you hand it is actually a valid one 🔍 If it isn't, it prints the line you'd need to add to /etc/locale.gen on stdout, so locale-gen can generate that locale (assuming it exists at all 💀).

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/sbin/validlocale
  • /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • DEFAULTCHARSET — this is the charset it assumes when the locale you gave it isn't in the supported list 🫶

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

bestie, here's the vibe. If you pass in a valid locale, it tells you so on stderr 🥰

% validlocale C
locale 'C' valid and available

Now if the locale is invalid (not generated, or just nonexistent 😭), it tells you on stderr that it's not available, and then prints the line for /etc/locale.gen on stdout so you can get it generated 🙈

% validlocale de_AU@euro
locale 'de_AU@euro' not available
de_AU@euro ISO-8859-15

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> 🧚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

locale-gen(8), localedef(1), locale(1) 💜

Source credit goes to Petter Reinholdtsen, version 0.1 📦 Stay iconic, bestie, and go validate some locales 💅🫶✨

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