15.1. Locale About¶
15.1.1. Rationale¶
i18n = internationalization
l10n = localization
15.1.2. Syntax¶
language
variant
encoding
en_US.UTF-8
15.1.3. Get Locale¶
$ locale
LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
$ env |grep LC_
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
15.1.4. Set Locale¶
$ echo 'export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> ~/.profile
ls -R /etc/locale*
15.1.5. Locale in Python¶
import locale