POSIX # fall-back, ASCII encoding, same as CĪ piece of software is expected to utilize one or more of the installed locales, depending on a couple of environment variables, each covering a different aspect (a locale category). The command 'locale -a' will show which locales are available on your system: $ locale -aĬ # fall-back, ASCII encoding, same as POSIXĭe_DE.utf8 # German language, Germany, UTF-8 encodingĭe_CH.utf8 # German language, Switzerland, UTF-8 encodingįr_CH.utf8 # French language, Switzerland, UTF-8 encodingįr_CA.utf8 # French language, Canada, UTF-8 encodingĮn_US.utf8 # English language, USA, UTF-8 encoding This page is about more fine-grained, non-GUI customization. In this case, the GUI provided by System Settings -> Language Support does the right thing. Most users want a single locale to be used for all aspects of their session. Actual locales are installed separately via the language-pack-* packages. The basic functionality is provided by the locales package, which is installed by default. Ubuntu used the answers to those questions, in part, to choose a suitable locale for your installation. When you installed Ubuntu, you answered some simple questions such as specifying your country and language. Locales customize programs to your language and country. Three question marks are a placeholder for information that is lacking. It will take either a) a bit of time, or b) a professional, to make this page a good reference. There is precious little documentation covering locales, either in books or on the web.
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