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Mohammad Etemaddar
Asked: 2019-06-01 10:38:41 +0800 CST

Disable locale in datetime display in terminal and logs

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I use Persian loclae. In addition to displaying wrong words for the time, I prefer to display the original English words. Also in system logs. How should I do this?

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  1. Best Answer

    First edit /etc/locale.gen and make sure that en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 id uncommented.

    sudo editor /etc/locale.gen

    Find it and change this:

    #en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

    into this:

    en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

    Next, rebuild locales:

    sudo locale-gen

    And then you can set your locale for terminal logins by editing ~/.bashrc or `~/.bash_profile/ and adding:

    export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8

    Also if you want to run certain commands with default (English) locales you can put LC_ALL=C in front of them, like so:

    LC_ALL=C top -d1
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