locale
Your locale tells the computer your location, preferred time-and-date format, standard language, papersize, et c. A list of supported locales is available at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
See a full list with:
1cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
Take the first portion to generate full locale information for a region:
1locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8
Then use this for the current shell session with
1LANG=ru_RU.utf8
Expand this to the entire system with:
1export 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:
1sudo 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. |