Locales in Debian

debian_locales.sh

# @see https://people.debian.org/~schultmc/locales.html
# @see http://badyblog.com/ustanovka-utf-8-rusifikaciya-konsoli-v-debian/
# perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
# locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory 

locale

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
#138. en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
#349. ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
#Generating locales (this might take a while)...
#  en_US.UTF-8... done
#  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
#Generation complete.

# check if well done
perl -e exit

# --------------------
# localepurge
# --------------------
sudo apt-get install localepurge
sudo dpkg-reconfigure localepurge
#en ru
sudo localepurge

# --------------------
# you dont need it usually :)
# --------------------
ls /etc/default/locale
sudo nano /etc/default/locale
>LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>#LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

# MORE
#/etc/locale.gen
#locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
#locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8