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"locale.conf">
11 <title>locale.conf
</title>
12 <productname>systemd
</productname>
16 <contrib>Developer
</contrib>
17 <firstname>Lennart
</firstname>
18 <surname>Poettering
</surname>
19 <email>lennart@poettering.net
</email>
25 <refentrytitle>locale.conf
</refentrytitle>
26 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
30 <refname>locale.conf
</refname>
31 <refpurpose>Configuration file for locale settings
</refpurpose>
35 <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename></para>
39 <title>Description
</title>
41 <para>The
<filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename> file configures
42 system-wide locale settings. It is read at early boot by
43 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
45 <para>The basic file format of
<filename>locale.conf
</filename> is
46 a newline-separated list of environment-like shell-compatible
47 variable assignments. It is possible to source the configuration
48 from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments, no
49 shell features are supported, allowing applications to read the
50 file without implementing a shell compatible execution
53 <para>Note that the kernel command line options
54 <varname>locale.LANG=
</varname>,
55 <varname>locale.LANGUAGE=
</varname>,
56 <varname>locale.LC_CTYPE=
</varname>,
57 <varname>locale.LC_NUMERIC=
</varname>,
58 <varname>locale.LC_TIME=
</varname>,
59 <varname>locale.LC_COLLATE=
</varname>,
60 <varname>locale.LC_MONETARY=
</varname>,
61 <varname>locale.LC_MESSAGES=
</varname>,
62 <varname>locale.LC_PAPER=
</varname>,
63 <varname>locale.LC_NAME=
</varname>,
64 <varname>locale.LC_ADDRESS=
</varname>,
65 <varname>locale.LC_TELEPHONE=
</varname>,
66 <varname>locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=
</varname>,
67 <varname>locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION=
</varname> may be
68 used to override the locale settings at boot.
</para>
70 <para>The locale settings configured in
71 <filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename> are system-wide and are
72 inherited by every service or user, unless overridden or unset by
73 individual programs or individual users.
</para>
75 <para>Depending on the operating system, other configuration files
76 might be checked for locale configuration as well, however only as
79 <para><filename>/etc/vconsole.conf
</filename> is usually created and updated
81 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
82 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>localectl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
83 may be used to alter the settings in this file during runtime from
85 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
86 to initialize them on mounted (but not booted) system images.
</para>
90 <title>Options
</title>
92 <para>The following locale settings may be set using
93 <filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename>:
94 <varname>LANG=
</varname>,
95 <varname>LANGUAGE=
</varname>,
96 <varname>LC_CTYPE=
</varname>,
97 <varname>LC_NUMERIC=
</varname>,
98 <varname>LC_TIME=
</varname>,
99 <varname>LC_COLLATE=
</varname>,
100 <varname>LC_MONETARY=
</varname>,
101 <varname>LC_MESSAGES=
</varname>,
102 <varname>LC_PAPER=
</varname>,
103 <varname>LC_NAME=
</varname>,
104 <varname>LC_ADDRESS=
</varname>,
105 <varname>LC_TELEPHONE=
</varname>,
106 <varname>LC_MEASUREMENT=
</varname>,
107 <varname>LC_IDENTIFICATION=
</varname>.
108 Note that
<varname>LC_ALL
</varname> may not be configured in this
109 file. For details about the meaning and semantics of these
111 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>locale
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
115 <title>Example
</title>
118 <title>German locale with English messages
</title>
120 <para><filename>/etc/locale.conf
</filename>:
</para>
122 <programlisting>LANG=de_DE.UTF-
8
123 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-
8</programlisting>
129 <title>See Also
</title>
131 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
132 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>locale
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
133 <citerefentry project='man-pages'
><refentrytitle>localectl
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
134 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
135 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>