Locales are used by different applications in order to display the output in a proper way. Note that in every glibc update the locales are generated.
- List the enabled locales
locale -a
| C |
| el_GR.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| POSIX |
- Available locales file
vim /etc/locale.gen
- Generate locales
sudo locale-gen
- Display locale settings
locale
| LANG=en_US.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| LC_NUMERIC=el_GR.utf8 |
| LC_TIME=el_GR.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| LC_MONETARY=el_GR.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| LC_PAPER=el_GR.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| LC_MEASUREMENT=el_GR.utf8 |
| en_US.utf8 |
| LC_ALL= |
- List locales in archive
localedef--list-archive
- Setting the system locale
vim /etc/locale.conf
- Override the system locale per session
vim ~/.config/locale.conf
- NOTE:
LC_ALL cannot be set in locale.conf