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