Where to put export LC_ALL=C?

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I ran it once, but my terminal native language went back to Finnish. I've tried unsuccessfully .bashrc and .profile.

I have followed the thread here about How to set all locale settings in Ubuntu. I have also tried to setup English as locale:

sudo update-locale LANG=en_EN.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

But output:

*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LC_NAME="fi_FI.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fi_FI.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=POSIX LANG=en_EN.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fi_FI.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fi_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fi_FI.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fi_FI.UTF-8"

Where can you put export LC_ALL=C?

Do _not_ do this, unless you exactly know what you're doing (in which case probably you wouldn't ask this question). This locale has the ANSI (7-bit) charset rather than UTF-8, that is, anything other than plain English characters will be hopelessly broken. At the very least you should have `LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8` (this is only available on Ubuntu and a few other distros, by far not on all Linuxes). Probably you're better off with going for `en_US.UTF-8` instead. — egmont, Jun 04 '16 at 05:19
@egmont You did. It is the best answer here with explanation why so should be done as you explain. — Léo Léopold Hertz 준영, Jun 04 '16 at 08:12

Videonauth · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-03T13:34:20.753

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You can either simply enter them by hand in each terminal you open, like the following:

LC_ALL=C
LANG=C

or you put it into .bashrc in the following way:

LC_ALL=C
LANG=C
export LC_ALL LANG

edited Jun 03 '16 at 13:34

answered Jun 03 '16 at 13:31

Videonauth

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Which one is a permanent change? – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jun 03 '16 at 13:31
First one does not work. I still see Finnish in `ls -la`. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jun 03 '16 at 13:32
Second thing gives the output `bash: export: 'LC_ALL,LANG': not a valid identifier` in terminal. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jun 03 '16 at 13:32
might as well put it into .profile but then it only gets set on reboot. – Videonauth Jun 03 '16 at 13:33
Does not work in profile, no error, but still `Finnish` in `ls -la`. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jun 03 '16 at 13:34
Did you do a reboot and check the second part again I had a `,` where no one had to be!? – Videonauth Jun 03 '16 at 13:44
No. Your 2nd set of commands do not also work with/without comma in Ubuntu 16.04. They put my GUI terminal time; so I could not write back for some time. It also took two times to restart the system to recover. I just fixed the thing in another TTY simply. I also tried all combinations of the two commands; but also `export LC_ALL; export LANG` Do they work in your system? – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jun 03 '16 at 14:41
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mhmmm, weird they work on my system , the second set i mean, but another thought why not set the system itself on the gui side to use English language, and fin measurements? – Videonauth Jun 03 '16 at 17:58

Where to put export LC_ALL=C?

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