setting locale

tommosa · 11-06-2007, 04:22 AM

If I go into command prompt and enter 'locale', LC_ALL is

Code:

LC_ALL=

.
Then if I enter :

Code:

export LC_ALL="en_ZA"

and enter 'locale' again, LC_ALL is

Code:

LC_ALL=en_ZA

.
But if log out and log in again and enter 'locale', then LC_ALL is back to

Code:

LC_ALL=

again.
Why isnt it keeping this setting ?
Thanks

blackhole54 · 11-06-2007, 04:56 AM

LC_ALL is an environmental variable. What you are doing is just setting it for the current instance of the shell you type it in and for all the descendants of that shell. What you need to do for it to be persistent is to get it set at login.

Most distros already have a mechanism for setting the locale variables. For example, in Ubuntu, I think you can do what you want by adding the line

Code:

LC_ALL="en_ZA"

to /etc/default/locale

tommosa · 11-06-2007, 05:22 AM

I'm using Mandriva so I added that line to /etc/sysconfig/i18n and that did the trick, thanks for the help.