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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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