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+ + + + +Configure locales + + +

+You will probably only use one or maybe two locales on your system. You have to +specify locales you will need in /etc/locale.gen. +

+ +
+# nano -w /etc/locale.gen
+
+ +

+The following locales are an example to get both English (United States) and +German (Germany) with the accompanying character formats (like UTF-8). +

+ +
+en_US ISO-8859-1
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+de_DE ISO-8859-1
+de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
+
+ + +You can select your desired locales in the list given by running locale -a. + + +

+The next step is to run locale-gen. It will generates all the locales you +have specified in the /etc/locale.gen file. +

+ +
+# locale-gen
+
+ +

+Once done, you now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings +in the /etc/env.d/02locale file: +

+ +
+LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
+LC_COLLATE="C"
+
+ +

+And reload your environment: +

+ +
+# env-update && source /etc/profile
+
+ +

+We made a full Localization +Guide to help you through this process. You can also read our detailed +UTF-8 Guide for very specific +informations to enable UTF-8 on your system. +

+

Please continue with Installing Necessary System Tools.