GNU gettext utilities: Setting the POSIX Locale
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2.3 Setting the Locale through Environment Variables
As a user, if your language has been installed for this package, in the simplest case, you only have to set the LANG
environment variable to the appropriate ‘ll_CC
’ combination. For example, let’s suppose that you speak German and live in Germany. At the shell prompt, merely execute ‘setenv LANG de_DE
’ /@w (in csh
), ‘export LANG; LANG=de_DE
’ /@w (in sh
) or ‘export LANG=de_DE
’ /@w (in bash
). This can be done from your .login
or .profile
file, once and for all.
• Locale Names: | How a Locale Specification Looks Like | |
• Locale Environment Variables: | Which Environment Variable Specfies What | |
• The LANGUAGE variable: | How to Specify a Priority List of Languages |