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07-09-2007, 07:25 AM	#1
Tux-Slack Member Registered: Nov 2006 Location: Slovenia Distribution: Slackware 13.37 Posts: 511 Rep:	How to change system wide locale? How would I change my locale system wide? Now when I set LANG=sl_SI.utf8 and LC_ALL=sl_SI.utf8 and switch to another terminal the locale on the other terminal is still en_US. And if I reboot the locale is back to en_US everywhere. How would I change that?

07-09-2007, 07:34 AM	#2
simcox1 Member Registered: Mar 2005 Location: UK Distribution: Slackware Posts: 794 Blog Entries: 2 Rep:	You can set the locale in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. It's set to en_US by default.

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