Setting LANG env on Ubuntu

[Diego Iastrubni]

On Friday 25 September 2009 00:15:40 Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I don't know about Ubuntu, but in Debian these variables are set either
> in /etc/default/locale or /etc/environment. Also, the "official" way of
> changing those is by doing "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as root.

On Debian/Ubuntu, "dpkg-reconfigure locales"  is a light wrapper around 
localgegen (I think, I am currently on Fedora...). On Mandriva, you can 
install each one of those locales by an rpm instead of generating them on your 
machine. If you want to change the locale of your system, this is a mandatory 
step.

However it does not change the locale. What I usually do (works on 
Debian/Ubuntu/Mandriva/Fedora) is:

locale > ~/.i18n

and then edit ~/.i18n as needed. Here it is on my machine:
[elcuco at pinky ~] cat /home/elcuco/.i18n
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=