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If you run locale on an Ubuntu installation you get something like:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

How come LC_ALL is unset? I know how to set it, but why doesn't Ubuntu set it automatically, like with the other LC_'s?

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  • I do not think it is recommended to do this because it will override all your other locale settings.
    – Mitch
    May 22, 2012 at 8:32
  • If you would like to know how to change that let me know.
    – Mitch
    May 22, 2012 at 8:32

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If LC_ALL is set it overrides the values of all the other LC_ variables. Hence setting it by default would have the same effect for your locale settings as setting all the LC variables but would make it more difficult to change only some of the values.

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