Comments on: How to Change or Set System Locales in Linux

By: karel

karel — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:20:15 +0000

Hi,

If I do:

$ sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

Does this also remove the thousands of locale directories from all the programs or does it just deactivate their use of them?

By: Andreas Toth

Andreas Toth — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:48:35 +0000

Whoever thought that the language of week- and month-names should be tied to the user’s locale and not the user’s display language was a really clever monkey. Take, for example, my system configured for English but a Hungarian locale: everything on my system displays in English EXCEPT for days and months which are in Hungarian!!!

Seriously?! It must be the most illogical design that I have come across and it seems to be quite common on Linux systems. Nutters. Oh, and user-customization of locales is something completely overlooked on most Linux desktops. Argh!

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:44:33 +0000

There's a double LANG= in the section ”How to Set System Locale in Linux“

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:23:19 +0000

In reply to Pedro Bezunartea López.

@Pedro

Many thanks for sharing this. We will look into this further.

By: Pedro Bezunartea López

Pedro Bezunartea López — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:54:19 +0000

In reply to Pedro Bezunartea López. Never mind for the last line, update-locale needs to be run as root.