Benjamin Altpeter baltpeter

Data protection activist and co-chairman of @datenanfragen. Excited about FOSS and IT sec. Enjoys both making and breaking software.

baltpeter / script.sh

Last active July 5, 2016 11:00

Setting up locale correctly on new Ubuntu/Debian servers

	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