Locales are used in Linux to define which language and character set (encoding) user see in the terminal.
From this article you will learn how to check and change the current locale and language settings from the command line in Linux.
I will show how to check the current locale and language settings and how to get the list of available locals.
You will also see how to set locale and language temporary for the current session only as well as permanently for a single user or for the all users (change default system locale). (more…)