42 lines
1.5 KiB
Shell
42 lines
1.5 KiB
Shell
#!/bin/sh
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# Locale settings for desktop machines
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# as run by the author of this `dotfiles` repository
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# Requires the en_US.UTF-8, en_DK.UTF-8, en_IE.UTF-8, and de_DE.UTF-8
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# locales be installed which is checked by ~/.local/bin/ensure-locales
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# Other hosts (e.g., servers) usually lack some of these locales,
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# and Debian's /etc/ssh/ssh_config forwards all of them via `SendEnv LANG LC_*`
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# => ~/.local/bin/ssh, ~/.local/bin/scp, and ~/.local/bin/sftp
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# send `LC_ALL=C.UTF-8` on top to mask them on remote hosts
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export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 # Fallback for any (future) LC_* not set below
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# Base: US English for language, text handling, and sorting
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export LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 # Dictionary sort order => Ignore punctuation
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export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 # UTF-8 character classification
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export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
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export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 # 1,234.56 rather than 1.234,56
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# Exceptions: European conventions with English number formatting
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export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_IE.UTF-8 # Use the metric system
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export LC_MONETARY=en_IE.UTF-8 # Euro with 1,234.56
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export LC_PAPER=en_IE.UTF-8 # Use DIN-A4 for a page
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export LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 # ISO dates, 24h clock, Monday first
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# (German) metadata
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export LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 # German postal layout
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export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
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export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
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export LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 # For "+49" and "030 12345"
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export TZ="Europe/Berlin"
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