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On freshly installed Ubuntu Core 16 for Raspberry Pi 3, calling locale prints:

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

I'm assuming some of those values are set by ssh client.

How to generate new locale? I cannot find locale-gen and there is no locales package.

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Have you tried putting export LANG=locale in your ~/.profile file, with the word locale being the locale you want to use? Usually changing just the lang is good enough. Also, have you looked into using the setlocale command? – Ken May 4 '17 at 5:00
    
I cannot find setlocale in PATH, a least non in the base image for raspberrypi. I can set the locales using env variables, but there only seem to be one possible value, that is C.UTF-8. – chrmod May 4 '17 at 21:58
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You can't. Ubuntu Core ships without locale support; /etc/default/locale in core is readonly, hardwired to C.UTF-8.

There exists a locale-control interface that is for use on classic, that is, it allows a snap to control the default locale of a classic system. It does not work on an ubuntu core system.

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can you please reference any document that states that? I've found a plug called locale-control listed here - do you think it is related to locales or something else? – chrmod May 4 '17 at 21:56
    
@chrmod I've expanded my answer addressing locale-control and giving a bit more detail. – Chipaca May 5 '17 at 8:14

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