Change locale globally (f20)?

[Michael Hannon]

Greetings.  I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently
installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set
for the GB locale.  E.g.,

$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.utf8
GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8

Likewise, the following:

$ cd /etc
$ find . -type f -exec grep "GB" {} /dev/null ;

gets a gazillion hits.

This leads to some undesirable behaviour/behavior.  My spell checker
(hunspell) was using British spellings, for instance.

I've mitigated the problem by adding:

LANG="en_US.utf8"
export LANG

to my .bash_profile, but I wonder if there's some way to change the setting
globally, i.e., from GB... to US...   Any thoughts?  Thanks.

--Mike

[Tom H]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Michael Hannon
 wrote:
> Greetings.  I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently
> installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set for
> the GB locale.  E.g.,
>
> $ env | grep LANG
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8
>
> Likewise, the following:
>
> $ cd /etc
> $ find . -type f -exec grep "GB" {} /dev/null ;
>
> gets a gazillion hits.
>
> This leads to some undesirable behaviour/behavior.  My spell checker
> (hunspell) was using British spellings, for instance.
>
> I've mitigated the problem by adding:
>
> LANG="en_US.utf8"
> export LANG
>
> to my .bash_profile, but I wonder if there's some way to change the setting
> globally, i.e., from GB... to US...   Any thoughts?  Thanks.

localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[Michael Hannon]

Great.  Thanks, Tom.

-- Mike

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Tom H  wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Michael Hannon
>  wrote:
> > Greetings.  I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently
> > installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set
>
> for
> > the GB locale.  E.g.,
> >
> > $ env | grep LANG
> > LANG=en_GB.utf8
> > GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8
> >
> > Likewise, the following:
> >
> > $ cd /etc
> > $ find . -type f -exec grep "GB" {} /dev/null ;
> >
> > gets a gazillion hits.
> >
> > This leads to some undesirable behaviour/behavior.  My spell checker
> > (hunspell) was using British spellings, for instance.
> >
> > I've mitigated the problem by adding:
> >
> > LANG="en_US.utf8"
> > export LANG
> >
> > to my .bash_profile, but I wonder if there's some way to change the
>
> setting
> > globally, i.e., from GB... to US...   Any thoughts?  Thanks.
> localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
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