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LOCALE.CONF(5) locale.conf LOCALE.CONF(5)
locale.conf - Configuration file for locale settings
/etc/locale.conf
The /etc/locale.conf file configures system-wide locale settings.
It is read at early boot by systemd(1).
The format of locale.conf is a newline-separated list of
environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments, ignoring
comments and empty lines. It is possible to source the
configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable
assignments, no shell features are supported, allowing
applications to read the file without implementing a shell
compatible execution engine. See os-release(5) for a detailed
description of the format.
Note that the kernel command line options locale.LANG=,
locale.LANGUAGE=, locale.LC_CTYPE=, locale.LC_NUMERIC=,
locale.LC_TIME=, locale.LC_COLLATE=, locale.LC_MONETARY=,
locale.LC_MESSAGES=, locale.LC_PAPER=, locale.LC_NAME=,
locale.LC_ADDRESS=, locale.LC_TELEPHONE=, locale.LC_MEASUREMENT=,
locale.LC_IDENTIFICATION= may be used to override the locale
settings at boot.
The locale settings configured in /etc/locale.conf are system-wide
and are inherited by every service or user, unless overridden or
unset by individual programs or users.
Depending on the operating system, other configuration files might
be checked for locale configuration as well, however only as
fallback.
/etc/locale.conf can be updated using systemd-localed.service(8).
localectl(1) may be used to alter the settings in this file during
runtime from the command line. Use systemd-firstboot(1) to
customize them on mounted (but not booted) system images.
The following locale settings may be set using /etc/locale.conf:
LANG=, LANGUAGE=, LC_CTYPE=, LC_NUMERIC=, LC_TIME=, LC_COLLATE=,
LC_MONETARY=, LC_MESSAGES=, LC_PAPER=, LC_NAME=, LC_ADDRESS=,
LC_TELEPHONE=, LC_MEASUREMENT=, LC_IDENTIFICATION=. Note that
LC_ALL may not be configured in this file. For details about the
meaning and semantics of these settings, refer to locale(7).
Example 1. German locale with English messages
/etc/locale.conf:
# Custom settings
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
systemd(1), locale(7), localectl(1), systemd-localed.service(8),
systemd-firstboot(1)
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
manager) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
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systemd 258~rc2 LOCALE.CONF(5)
Pages that refer to this page: localectl(1), systemd(1), systemd-firstboot(1), systemd.exec(5), vconsole.conf(5), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-localed.service(8)
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