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sonycdr

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 130

Unable to change locale

Using openSUSE Leap 15.5 and XFCE 4.18.

I tried this:

main@localhost:~> sudo localectl set-locale en_UK.UTF-8; localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_UK.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: en
      X11 Layout: en
       X11 Model: microsoftpro
     X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
main@localhost:~> 
main@localhost:~> locale
LANG=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=
main@localhost:~>

As you can see, even after changing system locale to en_UK, locale command still shows default en_US.
How can I fix this?

Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Unable to change locale

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/locale … _immediate notes that the change will take effect on new login. To have it take immediate effect, you need to unset LANG and re-source locale.sh for the effect to be immediate. Not sure if the same applies in openSUSE.

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sonycdr

Member

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 130

Re: Unable to change locale

Since in SUSE there's no /etc/locale.gen nor /etc/profile.d/locale.sh at all, I'd think SUSE handles it differently...