Comments on: How to Fix “Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8” in CentOS 8

By: Mauricio López

Mauricio López — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:04:53 +0000

It solves the issue. Thank you!

By: Bea

Bea — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:29:54 +0000

Thanks!

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 06:51:39 +0000

In reply to Marv Woolard.

@Marv

I hope it worked for you. Thanks for the feedback.

By: Marv Woolard

Marv Woolard — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 02:19:14 +0000

After trying the above solution, i.e installing langpacks, I locate gnome-control-center where I was able to change language from ANSI to English, in the Region & Language section. Set Language to English (United States) and Formats to United States (English).

Locale now displays:
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=

By: Marv Woolard

Marv Woolard — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:01:41 +0000

RHEL 8.3 install script failed during install localectl status showed empty, but I have updated it however locale still shows "C" and gnome-terminal fails to open.

$ locale

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

$ localectl status

   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us
       X11 Model: pc105+inet
     X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

Marv