related question: For setting locale in Ubuntu, what does the LANGUAGE environment variable mean?
for setting locale my existing Ubuntu 12.04 server has LANGUAGE
as en_US:
And I can set it to en_US:utf8
as well. What is the difference ?
existing configuration is, which i found by typing locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_US:
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
EDIT: right now LANGUAGE
is en_US:
. notice the colon at the end