lk/basics/locale.md
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title: "locale"
tags: [ "Documentation", "Basics" ]
---
A list of supported locales is available at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
See a full list with:
> cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
Take the first portion to generate full locale information for a region:
> locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8
Then use this for the current shell session with
> LANG=ru_RU.utf8
Expand this to the entire system with:
> 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:
> 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. |