Setting System Locale#

Carbonio requires strictly en_US.UTF-8 as the default system locale; a different locale may lead to unexpected issues and services not working correctly.

Follow this procedure to ensure the correct locale are set. all commands must be executed as the root user.

Step 0. Verify the current locale settings

# locale

If the output is en_US.UTF-8 for all variables, no other task is needed: Carbonio already uses the correct locale. Example output:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
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=

Step 1. Change the Locale Configuration

# localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.utf8

Step 2. Reload the Locale Configuration

To ensure the settings are applied correctly, execute commands

# source /etc/default/locale

# source /etc/locale.conf

Step 3.Verify the Locale Change

Execute again the command mentioned in Step 1. The output should be similar.

# locale