Locale reverts to old locale after exiting root?

Question

Heyo~

I am having an issue whenever I change locale. At present, I am getting this error whenever I run the locale command.

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

LANG=

LANGUAGE=en en

LC_CTYPE="POSIX"

LC_NUMERIC=en

LC_TIME=en

LC_COLLATE="POSIX"

LC_MONETARY=en

LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"

LC_PAPER=en

LC_NAME=en

LC_ADDRESS=en

LC_TELEPHONE=en

LC_MEASUREMENT=en

LC_IDENTIFICATION=en

LC_ALL=

After entering root using 'sudo -i' or 'sudo su', I use 'export LC_ALL="en_GB"'. Using locale whilst in root gives this.

LANG=

LANGUAGE=en en

LC_CTYPE="en_GB"

LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"

LC_TIME="en_GB"

LC_COLLATE="en_GB"

LC_MONETARY="en_GB"

LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"

LC_PAPER="en_GB"

LC_NAME="en_GB"

LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"

LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"

LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"

LC_ALL=en_GB

However, after leaving root, via 'exit', 'reboot' or simply closing the Terminal, the changes completely revert and the "locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory" error returns. The output of 'locale' is the same as before I used 'export LC_ALL="en_GB"'

I've attempted to use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to no effect.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

Your locale is a complete mess.

• Please go to "System Settings -> Language Support".
• Drag the language of your choice to the top, and click "Apply system-wide".
• Move to the "Regional Formats" tab, select the region of your choice, and click "Apply system-wide".
• Reboot.

Hopefully that does it.