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I am running an Ubuntu image provided by my company, it seemed to have some strange locale settings to begin with. Firefox uses the French dictionary by default and I get warnings when doing anything with SSH (git pull/push and normal SSH sessions).

Those warnings look like this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I have been trying to set my locale to en_GB.UTF-8 using information I have found on places such as askubuntu.com but I can't get it to work. My current /etc/default/locale file contains the following.

LANG="en_GB"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"

And here is the result of my locale command.

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Does anyone have any idea what can be set to correct this?

Thanks.

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  • I think I might have fixed it by stopping my client sending my locale settings to the external server. Found in this answer. Need to try some things to make sure though.
    – Wolfy87
    May 2, 2013 at 9:54

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Try adding this line: en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 to this file: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en. Then run dpkg-reconfigure locales in the command line.

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