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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.