Re: [arch-general] cannot set locale (systemd)

Am Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:10:01 -0300 schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel <tschertel@gmail.com>:

Both /etc/locale.conf and /etc/environment have this lines:

LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C

And my system (LXDM + XFCE) keeps en_US.

No, it uses C, because Xfce unfortunately uses LC_MESSAGES, not LANG, to set its locale. To get pt_BR.UTF-8 in Xfce you need to remove LC_MESSAGES=C. If you need the messages in the terminal with the locale C for filing bug reports e.g., I'd suggest you to always prefix the command with LC_MESSAGES=C or set an alias for those commands. This issue has nothing to do with systemd, btw. Heiko