Solved Can't change/find the terminal language (locale)

[Aknot]

I'm totally lost now!

I have been trying to remove the wrong locale in the terminal.
I don't know what caused this, but it might have been an earlier DE.

Thit is what I have:

# locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I want en_US.UTF-8 and nothing else!

I can't find where this is set?
I'm using /bin/sh

# echo $SHELL
/bin/sh

 

[Criosphinx]

I set mine in ~/.login_conf
See login.conf()

 

[mer]

Depending on how one is starting the DE, it could be done in .xinitrc (if you log into CLI, then startx) or .xsession

 

[Aknot]

I set mine in ~/.login.conf

I can't find anything pointing to any set locale, in any dot file?!

 

[Aknot]

Depending on how one is starting the DE, it could be done in .xinitrc (if you log into CLI, then startx) or .xsession

I have removed the DE on this computer, it was a fresh install, so I kept it an just removed KDE* Maybe something left somewhere?

 

[mer]

I'd start with checking any "dotfiles" in your user home dir (.profile, .login etc) Maybe in $HOME do "grep -i LANG .*" and "grep -i LC_ALL .*"

 

[SirDice]

Besides ~/.login.conf, there's also /etc/login.conf.

 

[Emrion]

I can't find anything pointing to any set locale, in any dot file?!

My .xinitrc... One of them:

export LANG="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
export LC_TYPE="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4

 

[Criosphinx]

Set :lang=en_US.UTF-8

See 26.2.1 in the handbook it mentions the shell startup files I don't know which will take priority.

 

[mer]

I have removed the DE on this computer, it was a fresh install, so I kept it an just removed KDE* Maybe something left somewhere?

On install was there a selection of maybe keymap/locale? If so that could point at a more "system" instead of user.

 

[Aknot]

I just found it!

It was set in /etc/login.conf - and I had actually changed it earlier to en_US, but with no luck.
But I just saw now, that I needed to run # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf if making changes to that file - this was new to me.

I have NEVER used any other language on my own computers, than english, I can't even navigate in Windows in my own native lang

Thanks everyone!!

 

[T-Daemon]

Instead of searching manually through possible configuration files, I would grep(1) through the locations where locale variables been read from configuration files, e.g.:

grep -r sv_SE.UTF-8 . /etc /usr/local/etc