Say you’re writing an API and you wanted to set your
locale
per region. You initialized everything in your python script but got an error saying
unsupported locale setting
Or maybe you know how to install a
locale
but you gotta do it in your pipeline script, and you’re wandering if there’s any
cli
alternative to
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Well, you’re at the right place my friend.
To start off with the python thing,
unsupported locale setting
means that locale you’re trying to use isn’t installed.
To verify, say you wanna use,
en_US.utf8
in your code
Type in
locale -a
in your terminal
if you see something like this that means it’s not installed.
To do so, type in,
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen
Now, install it by doing
sudo locale-gen en_US.utf8
And, you’re done.
One Liner
This one-liner is pretty useful and could also be used in pipelines.
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen; sudo locale-gen en_US.utf8
If you want to set that as your default
locale
do,
sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
You can also add other directives like
LC_TIME
,
LC_ALL
etc
Exit from your shell and open a new terminal: verify by typing
locale
You’ll see something like this,
If you think you wanna set a different
locale
as default repeat the process.
To manually set the default
locale
,
Edit the file
/etc/default/locale
and append your desired directives like below,
In your pipeline, do
sudo locale-gen en_US.utf8
if already setup or just use the one-liner to configure your
locale
without dpkg’s Gui intervention
Note:
1. when doing manually make sure that your locale is installed and configured otherwise it might cause issues.
2. LANG is the main thing you wanna set.
3. It's important that you change your shell or signout or reboot for the default locale to reflect.
4. In your pipeline script, if you're setting a said locale to default then execute other dependent programs or scripts in a new ssh directive.