locale.conf(5) — Linux manual page

LOCALE.CONF(5)                 locale.conf                LOCALE.CONF(5)

NAME

       locale.conf - Configuration file for locale settings

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/locale.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/locale.conf file configures system-wide locale settings.
       It is read at early boot by systemd(1).

       The format of locale.conf is a newline-separated list of
       environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
       comments and empty lines. It is possible to source the
       configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable
       assignments, no shell features are supported, allowing
       applications to read the file without implementing a shell
       compatible execution engine. See os-release(5) for a detailed
       description of the format.

       Note that the kernel command line options locale.LANG=,
       locale.LANGUAGE=, locale.LC_CTYPE=, locale.LC_NUMERIC=,
       locale.LC_TIME=, locale.LC_COLLATE=, locale.LC_MONETARY=,
       locale.LC_MESSAGES=, locale.LC_PAPER=, locale.LC_NAME=,
       locale.LC_ADDRESS=, locale.LC_TELEPHONE=, locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=,
       locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION= may be used to override the locale
       settings at boot.

       The locale settings configured in /etc/locale.conf are
       system-wide and are inherited by every service or user, unless
       overridden or unset by individual programs or users.

       Depending on the operating system, other configuration files
       might be checked for locale configuration as well, however only
       as fallback.

       /etc/locale.conf can be updated using systemd-localed.service(8).
       localectl(1) may be used to alter the settings in this file
       during runtime from the command line. Use systemd-firstboot(1) to
       customize them on mounted (but not booted) system images.

OPTIONS

       The following locale settings may be set using /etc/locale.conf:
       LANG=, LANGUAGE=, LC_CTYPE=, LC_NUMERIC=, LC_TIME=, LC_COLLATE=,
       LC_MONETARY=, LC_MESSAGES=, LC_PAPER=, LC_NAME=, LC_ADDRESS=,
       LC_TELEPHONE=, LC_MEASUREMENT=, LC_IDENTIFICATION=. Note that
       LC_ALL may not be configured in this file. For details about the
       meaning and semantics of these settings, refer to locale(7).

EXAMPLE

       Example 1. German locale with English messages

       /etc/locale.conf:

           # Custom settings

           LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
           LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), locale(7), localectl(1), systemd-localed.service(8),
       systemd-firstboot(1)

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Pages that refer to this page: localectl(1), systemd(1), systemd-firstboot(1), systemd.exec(5), vconsole.conf(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-localed.service(8)

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