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Setting up locale correctly on new Ubuntu/Debian servers
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| apt-get update # if this is the first boot on e.g. OpenVZ containers | |
| apt-get install language-pack-en | |
| update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| shutdown -rf 0 # reboot to ensure new locale is applied | |
| # when lang is "(undefinded)"; also preferred anyway | |
| export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 | |
| locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 | |
| dpkg-reconfigure locales |
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