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6 <refentry id=
"locale.conf">
8 <title>locale.conf
</title>
9 <productname>systemd
</productname>
13 <refentrytitle>locale.conf
</refentrytitle>
14 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
18 <refname>locale.conf
</refname>
19 <refpurpose>Configuration file for locale settings
</refpurpose>
23 <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename></para>
27 <title>Description
</title>
29 <para>The
<filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename> file configures
30 system-wide locale settings. It is read at early boot by
31 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
33 <para>The basic file format of
<filename>locale.conf
</filename> is
34 a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible
35 variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration
36 from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments, no
37 shell features are supported, allowing applications to read the
38 file without implementing a shell compatible execution
41 <para>Note that the kernel command line options
42 <varname>locale.LANG=
</varname>,
43 <varname>locale.LANGUAGE=
</varname>,
44 <varname>locale.LC_CTYPE=
</varname>,
45 <varname>locale.LC_NUMERIC=
</varname>,
46 <varname>locale.LC_TIME=
</varname>,
47 <varname>locale.LC_COLLATE=
</varname>,
48 <varname>locale.LC_MONETARY=
</varname>,
49 <varname>locale.LC_MESSAGES=
</varname>,
50 <varname>locale.LC_PAPER=
</varname>,
51 <varname>locale.LC_NAME=
</varname>,
52 <varname>locale.LC_ADDRESS=
</varname>,
53 <varname>locale.LC_TELEPHONE=
</varname>,
54 <varname>locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=
</varname>,
55 <varname>locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION=
</varname> may be
56 used to override the locale settings at boot.
</para>
58 <para>The locale settings configured in
59 <filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename> are system-wide and are
60 inherited by every service or user, unless overridden or unset by
61 individual programs or individual users.
</para>
63 <para>Depending on the operating system, other configuration files
64 might be checked for locale configuration as well, however only as
67 <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename> is usually created and updated
69 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
70 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>localectl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
71 may be used to alter the settings in this file during runtime from
73 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
74 to initialize them on mounted (but not booted) system images.
</para>
78 <title>Options
</title>
80 <para>The following locale settings may be set using
81 <filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename>:
82 <varname>LANG=
</varname>,
83 <varname>LANGUAGE=
</varname>,
84 <varname>LC_CTYPE=
</varname>,
85 <varname>LC_NUMERIC=
</varname>,
86 <varname>LC_TIME=
</varname>,
87 <varname>LC_COLLATE=
</varname>,
88 <varname>LC_MONETARY=
</varname>,
89 <varname>LC_MESSAGES=
</varname>,
90 <varname>LC_PAPER=
</varname>,
91 <varname>LC_NAME=
</varname>,
92 <varname>LC_ADDRESS=
</varname>,
93 <varname>LC_TELEPHONE=
</varname>,
94 <varname>LC_MEASUREMENT=
</varname>,
95 <varname>LC_IDENTIFICATION=
</varname>.
96 Note that
<varname>LC_ALL
</varname> may not be configured in this
97 file. For details about the meaning and semantics of these
99 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>locale
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
103 <title>Example
</title>
106 <title>German locale with English messages
</title>
108 <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename>:
</para>
110 <programlisting>LANG=de_DE.UTF-
8
111 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-
8</programlisting>
117 <title>See Also
</title>
119 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
120 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>locale
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
121 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>localectl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
122 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
123 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>