Users can override the system defaults by editing their ~/.bashrc accordingly. For
instance, if you do not want to use the systemwide en_US for program messages, include
LC_MESSAGES=es_ES so that messages are displayed in Spanish instead.
11.4.2 Locale Settings in ~/.i18n
If you are not satised with locale system defaults, change the settings in ~/.i18n
according to the Bash scripting syntax. Entries in ~/.i18n override system defaults
from /etc/sysconfig/language. Use the same variable names but without the
RC_ namespace prexes. For example, use LANG instead of RC_LANG:
LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
11.4.3 Settings for Language Support
Files in the category Messages are, as a rule, only stored in the corresponding language
directory (like en) to have a fallback. If you set LANG to en_US and the message le
in /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES does not exist, it falls back to
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES.
A fallback chain can also be dened, for example, for Breton to French or for Galician
to Spanish to Portuguese:
LANGUAGE="br_FR:fr_FR"
LANGUAGE="gl_ES:es_ES:pt_PT"
If desired, use the Norwegian variants Nynorsk and Bokmål instead (with additional
fallback to no):
LANG="nn_NO"
LANGUAGE="nn_NO:nb_NO:no"
or
LANG="nb_NO"
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