locale

• Locales are used by glibc and other locale-aware programs or libraries for rendering

• Text

• Correctly displaying regional monetary values
• Time and date formats
• Alphabetic idiosyncrasies

• And other locale-specific standards

• Format language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier] (e.g., en_US.UTF8")

• Before a locale can be enabled on the system it must be generated by locale-gen

# currently set locale and its related environmental settings
locale

# list all enabled locales (as generated by locale-gen)
locale -a

Locale Files

• /etc/locale.conf: system
• ~/.config/locale.conf: user