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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