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Re: How can I change the locale setting?



On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I must have missed something very elementary.  I can't find out how to 
> change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US.
> 
> locale -a shows both are available.  apropos locale provides a long list 
> of locale programs including setlocale.  The man page for setlocale 
> specifies the header to use in a C program.  I am not able to whip up a 
> C program at the drop of a hat though I can work one out if forced.   
> Still there must be a trivially simple way to change the locale setting 
> though I can't find one in my reference books.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could take a moment to point me in the 
> right direction.
> 
> Tom George
> 
To change the default locale for your whole system, run

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Regards,

Jan Nordholz

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