Understanding the Locales on Debian GNU/Linux

1. What are locales in Linux?
2. How do I change locales in Debian?
3. Where are locale files stored?
4. How do I run locale Gen?
5. What is Lc_all?
6. Where are Linux locales stored?
7. What is locales in Debian?
8. How do I change the timezone in Debian?
9. What is locale Ubuntu?
10. How do I find my locale?
11. What is Lang C in Linux?
12. What is en_US utf8?

What are 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. These environmental variables are used by system libraries and locale-aware applications on the system.

How do I change locales in Debian?

Manually

1. Edit the file /etc/locale.gen and add your locale settings (one set per line), e.g.: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE ISO-8859-1 de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15. ...
2. Run the command locale-gen.
3. Run the command locale -a to verify the list of available locales; note that the spellings change.

Where are locale files stored?

The locale files are located probably under /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES' in your system, but those are in a binary format. Their actual sources (in a editable, human-readable format) are not usually shipped with your distro. In this case, you'll have to search for them in upstream.

How do I run locale Gen?

Generating locales

Before a locale can be enabled on the system, it must be generated. This can be achieved by uncommenting applicable entries in /etc/locale. gen , and running locale-gen. Equivalently, commenting entries disables their respective locales.

What is Lc_all?

LC_ALL is the environment variable that overrides all the other localisation settings (except $LANGUAGE under some circumstances).

Where are Linux locales stored?

The default locale works system-wide and is stored in the file /etc/default/locale.

What is locales in Debian?

We will show you how to configure system locale on Debian 9. The system locale defines the language and country-specific setting for the programs running on your system and the shell sessions. You can use locales to see the time and date, numbers, currency and other values formatted as per your language or country.

How do I change the timezone in Debian?

To change your Debian system's timezone, run the sudo timedatectl set-timezone command followed by the long name of the time zone you want to set.

What is locale Ubuntu?

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 or Unix-like system.

How do I find my locale?

View the System Locale settings for Windows

1. Click Start then Control Panel.
2. Click Clock, Language and Region.
3. Windows 10, Windows 8: Click Region. ...
4. Click the Administrative tab. ...
5. Under the Language for non-Unicode programs section, click Change system locale and select the desired language.
6. Click OK.

What is Lang C in Linux?

LANG=C is a way to disable localization. It's used in scripts to predict program output which may vary based on current language. For more information read this. https://superuser.com/questions/334800/lang-c-is-in-a-number-of-the-etc-init-d-scripts-what-does-lang-c-do-and-why/334802#334802.

What is en_US utf8?

The en_US. UTF-8 locale is a significant Unicode locale in the Solaris 8 product. It supports and provides multiscript processing capability by using UTF-8 as its codeset. It can input and output text in multiple scripts. This was the first locale with this capability in the Solaris operating environment.