I am using Linux Mint 15Currently I have my locale as (by using command locale):LANG=en_US.UTF-8LANGUAGE=LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8LC_NUMERIC=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_TIME=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8LC_MONETARY=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8LC_PAPER=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_NAME=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_ADDRESS=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_TELEPHONE=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_MEASUREMENT=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_IDENTIFICATION=ar_SA.UTF-8LC_ALL=I want to change ar_SA.UTF-8 to en_IN.UTF-8. How do i achieve this?Which file shold I be editing?Cant seem to find any locale file other than /etc/locale.alias
Changing Locale
linux mint;locale
Your LocaleYou have a mix of several locales, at least en_US and ar_SA. These actually come from environment variables (the names of which locale is displaying for you).If these are only for your user, they may be coming from a setting in your desktop environment. Go into settings and look for language and/or locale settings. There may also be a language selector on the login screen.System Default LocaleOn Debian-like systems, the system default locale is stored in /etc/default/locale. Not all locales are necessarily available (generated), however; if the locales-all package isn't installed, the generation is controlled by /etc/locale.gen. You can edit both by hand (they're simple text files).If you decide to edit the files by hand, you'll need to run locale-gen to generate any new locales you enabled.The alternative is to run:dpkg-reconfigure localesThat should prompt you which locales to generate and which you want as the system default.Note that it'll give you a simple locale as default (everything will be en_IN.UTF-8). That may be fine; I suspect you can read en_IN messages almost as well as en_US ones. (With only slight annoyances about colour, etc.). If you want to generate a more complicated set up, you can edit /etc/default/locale by hand or by using update-locale.You'll need to log out and back in for the new locale settings to take effect.