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It's unclear what's 'basic', so `basic/` notes have been mostly moved. The remainder became `shell/`.
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+---
+title: "locale"
+tags: [ "basics", "time" ]
+---
+
+Your locale tells the computer your location, preferred time-and-date format, standard language, papersize, et c.
+A list of supported locales is available at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
+
+See a full list with:
+
+```sh
+cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
+```
+
+Take the first portion to generate full locale information for a region:
+
+```sh
+locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8
+```
+
+Then use this for the current shell session with
+
+```sh
+LANG=ru_RU.utf8
+```
+
+Expand this to the entire system with: 
+
+```sh
+export LANG=ru_RU.utf8
+```
+
+You can make this permanent for one user by adding this line to the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc.
+
+Make it permanent for the entire system by editing:
+
+```sh
+sudo vim /etc/defaults/locale
+```
+
+# Variables
+
+While generally set together, the variables setable are:
+
+| Variable                              | Description                                                    |
+|:-------------------------------------:|:---------------------------------------------------------------|
+| LC_TIME                               | Date and time                                                  |
+| LC_NUMERIC                            | Nonmonetary numeric formats                                    |
+| LC_PAPER                              | A4 vs wrong paper                                              |
+| LC_ADDRESS                            | Address formats, for those amazingly concise Polish addresses. |
+| LC_TELEPHONE                          | Telephone number formats.                                      |
+| LC_MEASUREMENT                        | Metric or Imperial, but no Impetric available.                 |
+| LC_IDENTIFICATION                     | Metadata about the locale information                          |
+| LC_ALL                                | Just everything at once.                                       |
+