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diff --git a/winsup/utils/utils.sgml b/winsup/utils/utils.sgml index 0c6499c41..79673c274 100644 --- a/winsup/utils/utils.sgml +++ b/winsup/utils/utils.sgml @@ -520,7 +520,8 @@ Options: current user's Windows default locale to stdout. The <literal>-s</literal> option prints the systems default locale instead. With the <literal>-u</literal> option <command>getlocale</command> appends a ".UTF-8". -This can be used in scripts to set the Cygwin locale, for instance: +This can be used in scripts to set the Cygwin locale to the Windows user +or system default, for instance, for a US-based user: </para> <screen> @@ -530,21 +531,27 @@ en_US.UTF-8 </screen> <para>The <literal>-a</literal> option is helpful to learn which locales -are supported by your Windows machine. It prints the locales and their -actual meaning, like this:</para> +are supported by your Windows machine. It prints all available locales, +their meaning, and the allowed modifiers. Example:</para> <screen> bash$ getlocale -a ar_SA Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar_IQ Arabic (Iraq) +... zh_TW Chinese (Traditional) (Taiwan) -zh_CN Chinese (Simplified) (People's Republic of China) -zh_HK Chinese (Traditional) (Hong Kong S.A.R.) -da_DK Danish (Denmark) +zh_TW@cjknarrow Chinese (Traditional) (Taiwan) +... +de_AT German (Austria) +de_AT@euro German (Austria) +... en_US English (United States) en_GB English (United Kingdom) en_AU English (Australia) ... +sr_RS Serbian (Cyrillic) (Serbia) +sr_RS@latin Serbian (Latin) (Serbia) +... </screen> </sect2> |