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Changing the locale on Ubuntu
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ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-68-C2:~$ sudo vim /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-68-C2:~$ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-68-C2:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
en_GB.ISO-8859-1... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-68-C2:~$ sudo update-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
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