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    How to Change or Set System Locales in Linux

    How to Change or Set System Locales in Linux

    Set System Locales in Linux

    A locale is a set of environmental variables that defines the language, country, and character encoding settings (or any other special variant preferences) for your applications and shell session on a Linux system. The system locale specifies which bitmap fonts and code pages (for example, ANSI or DOS) are used on the system by default. Locales defines language and country specific setting for your programs and shell session. You can use locales to see date, time, number, currency and other values formatted as per your country or language on a Linux.

    How to find System Locale in Linux:


    View information about the current installed locale, use the locale or localectl commands.

    [root@server1 ~]# locale
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=
    [root@server1 ~]# localectl
       System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
           VC Keymap: us
          X11 Layout: n/a
    [root@server1 ~]#

    How To display a list of all available locales?


    [root@server1 ~]# locale -a
    aa_DJ
    aa_DJ.iso88591
    aa_DJ.utf8
    aa_ER
    aa_ER@saaho
    aa_ER.utf8
    aa_ER.utf8@saaho
    aa_ET
    aa_ET.utf8
    af_ZA
    af_ZA.iso88591
    af_ZA.utf8
    am_ET
    am_ET.utf8
    an_ES
    an_ES.iso885915
    an_ES.utf8
    ar_AE
    ar_AE.iso88596
    ar_AE.utf8
    ar_BH
    ar_BH.iso88596
    ar_BH.utf8
    ar_DZ
    ar_DZ.iso88596
    ar_DZ.utf8
    ar_EG
    ar_EG.iso88596
    ar_EG.utf8
    ar_IN
    ar_IN.utf8
    ar_IQ
    ar_IQ.iso88596
    ar_IQ.utf8
    ar_JO
    ar_JO.iso88596
    ar_JO.utf8
    ar_KW
    ar_KW.iso88596
    ar_KW.utf8
    ar_LB
    ar_LB.iso88596
    ar_LB.utf8
    ar_LY
    ar_LY.iso88596
    ar_LY.utf8
    ar_MA
    ar_MA.iso88596
    ar_MA.utf8
    ar_OM
    ar_OM.iso88596
    ar_OM.utf8
    ar_QA
    ar_QA.iso88596
    ar_QA.utf8
    ar_SA
    ar_SA.iso88596
    ar_SA.utf8
    ar_SD
    ar_SD.iso88596
    ar_SD.utf8
    ar_SY
    ar_SY.iso88596
    ar_SY.utf8
    ar_TN
    ar_TN.iso88596
    ar_TN.utf8
    ar_YE
    ar_YE.iso88596
    ar_YE.utf8
    as_IN
    as_IN.utf8
    ast_ES
    ast_ES.iso885915
    ast_ES.utf8
    ayc_PE
    ayc_PE.utf8
    az_AZ
    az_AZ.utf8
    be_BY
    be_BY.cp1251
    be_BY@latin
    be_BY.utf8
    be_BY.utf8@latin
    bem_ZM
    bem_ZM.utf8
    ber_DZ
    ber_DZ.utf8
    ber_MA
    .......
    [root@server1 ~]# localectl list-locales
    aa_DJ
    aa_DJ.iso88591
    aa_DJ.utf8
    aa_ER
    aa_ER.utf8
    aa_ER.utf8@saaho
    aa_ER@saaho
    aa_ET
    aa_ET.utf8
    af_ZA
    af_ZA.iso88591
    af_ZA.utf8
    am_ET
    am_ET.utf8
    an_ES
    an_ES.iso885915
    an_ES.utf8
    ar_AE
    ar_AE.iso88596
    ar_AE.utf8
    ar_BH
    ar_BH.iso88596
    ar_BH.utf8
    ar_DZ
    ar_DZ.iso88596
    ar_DZ.utf8
    ar_EG
    ar_EG.iso88596
    ar_EG.utf8
    ar_IN
    .......

    How To set a locale?


    [root@server1 ~]# localectl set-locale ar_IQ.iso88596

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