Locale

locale command from libc-bin package in Ubuntu.

locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX

locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8

• /etc/default/locale

• apt-get install -y locales

Related terms

• invalid locale name: "en_US.UTF-8"
• locale-gen command from locales package
• localedef
• export
• LANG
• LOCALE in CREATE DATABASE

ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET character_set_name COLLATE collation;
CREATE DATABASE
initdb
SHOW LC_COLLATE

See also

• locale, update-locale, /etc/default/locale, locale -a, LANG, en_US.UTF-8, localedef