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Set Locale on Ubuntu

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How to solve Locale issue on Ubuntu

I was muddling through the locale issue on ubuntu and somehow found a solution to set the locale related bash variable and get the things done. But this was a temporary solution as the shell variables gets destroyed when the shell session ends. Than I wrote a bash script to set the locales by setting locale variable in the .bash_profile file and running the required script. Here is the way to fix it.

Make a file name set_locale.sh

touch set_locale.sh

Give the file executable permission

sudo chmod +x set_locale.sh

Now put the following content in the file

#!/bin/bash

# Set locales in /etc/default/locale file
echo "Setting locale..."
echo "# Locale settings
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8">>~/.bash_profile

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

source ~/.bash_profile

Let's run the script to set the locale

./set_locale.sh

Now, we have setup the locale which we can check by the following command

locale

The output should be similar to below

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

If the output is same as above than you have successfully fixed the locale issue.