[PLUG] question on locale change (with no notification)

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Sat May 18 16:05:33 UTC 2024


On Fri, 17 May 2024, American Citizen wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Has anyone had their system locale setting changed after downloading a kernel 
> update from one of the common linux distros?
>
> I had an upgrade to my openSuse Leap 15.5 and somehow the locale setting got 
> changed to en_US.utf8.
>
> I went to do a grep on a set of files and then everything went super slow. I 
> guessed that it was the locale setting and checked and sure enough, it had 
> changed from "C" to "en_US.utf8"
>
> Just curious if this is happening to others after a kernel update?

Perhaps. Are you sure that there weren't also updates to the shell 
you're using? That is, perhaps /etc/profile or its moral equivalents 
were updated as well.

I personally only want old-school "C" settings for sorting, so I do 
something like this in my shell config files (.bashrc at work, .zshrc 
at home):

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="C"

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Paul Heinlein
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