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System Locales Change and Set in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7

In this tutorial we see step by step system locales change and set in CentSO 7 and RHEL 7. We will also know, What is system locales? So let’s start and first off all see what is system locales?

What is System Locale?

Locale is a set of environmental variables which defines the language, country, and character encoding settings for our applications and shell session on our Linux machine. These environmental variables are used by system libraries and locale-aware applications on the system.

Check Current System Locale Settings

We can check current locale settings with the help of localectl status command.

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: us
[root@urclouds ~]#

Locale configuration file can be found in this path:- “cat /etc/locale.conf”

[root@urclouds ~]# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
[root@urclouds ~]#

List of All Available  Locales in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7

You must know that which locales are available on the current system, before changing the system locale. We can display locale list using below command. Like below:-

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl list-locales

If you want to select a EN_US locale, then you can list all EN_US locales by issue the following command:

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl list-locales | grep en_US
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.iso885915
en_US.utf8
[root@urclouds ~]#

Change The System Locale

We have two option to change the system locale, first modify the configuration in this “/etc/locale.conf” file and second is “localectl” command which is newly added in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7.

We need to edit “/etc/locale.conf” file and search “LANG” line and change its value as what we want to select the locale. Such as: change locale to “en_us.iso88591”.

[root@urclouds ~]# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
[root@urclouds ~]#

Before:

LANG=es_US.utf8

After:

LANG=en_US.iso88591
[root@urclouds ~]# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="en_US.iso885915"
[root@urclouds ~]#

Save and exit the above configuration file and reboot the system, then this changes will be  effected.

Setting system locale via localectl command

To set the default system locale, we can use below command:

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl set-locale LANG=< locale name

Where we need to replace the locale name, which we want to select the locale. Like below:-
Changing the default locale to Eng locale, we need to run below command:-

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8
[root@urclouds ~]#

Now we can verify current locale status and we will find our current local is “en_US.utf8”

[root@urclouds ~]# localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: us
[root@urclouds ~]#

That’s all we have set and change the system locale setting in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7.

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