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Per user configuration #

The manual man 5 locale is very brief, but it lists man 7 locale under SEE ALSO. The main purpose of the manual is to describe the format of /etc/locale.conf. The xdg-standard however also allows per-user locale settings in a file ~/.config/locale.conf with a similar format.

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