[arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

[Jürgen Werner]

Am 03.11.2014 10:21, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann:
> On 31 October 2014 15:42, Mateus Rodrigues Costa <charles.costar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2014-10-31 13:34 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>:
>>> # sudo localectl set-locale en_GB.utf8
>>> Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data.
>>>
>>> Could this be a corrupted file? (Feasible, as we did have a power cut.) I
>>> tried reinstalling glibc, but that didn't help.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>> localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
>>
> # sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
> # echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> # sudo localectl
>     System Locale: LANG=en-GB.utf8
>         VC Keymap: dvorak
>        X11 Layout: n/a
>
> I tried a new login session too in a fresh VT, and the LANG environment
> variable is still en_US.UTF-8.
>
> Paul

You have to run

# locale-gen