Setting locales on raspberry pi

locales.sh

# raspberry pi locales

#
# dynamically set locales
#

# check current locale settings
locale

# reconfigure locale settings (option 1)
sudo raspi-config

# reconfigure locale settings (option 2)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales


# 
# manually set locales
#

# setting individual settings
export LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

# apply config
sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF8"

# check settings again
locale