Linux – How to change the commandline locale after CentOS decided to change it

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So apparently, CentOS decided I was Dutch, and thus, should not have a English locale.

Apart from the fact that this greatly bothers me, I am having a pretty hard time actually changing it back. There does not seem to be a setlocale function, and system-config-language tells me I am using an English locale, even though my environment says otherwise.

Any help would be appreciated.

Output from locale:

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

Both my ~/.bashrc as ~/.bash_profile contain no locale settings. Additionally, /etc/bashrc does not contain any locale references either.

Best Answer

I just stumbled on this exact same problem, and found out why this is happens in my case and thought i'd share. I recently got a new iMac at work that runs OS X Lion (previous workstation was OS X Snow Leopard)

OS X Lion by default sets the locale in env variable LANG in Terminal. This was set to nl_NL.UTF-8. Sshd on the CentOS system imports this environment variable in its shell when you ssh into your CentOS box.

I solved it by disabling 'Set locale environment variables on startup' in Terminal preferences (settings->advanced)

Don't know if you run OS X on your desktop, but bottom line is: sshd on CentOS imports the locale settings from the ssh client workstation.

HTH

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