Hello everyone,
When I run the command localedef -c -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.utf-8 the command runs with no errors but running locale still shows:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
I rebooted the machine just in case, that didn't help
Running locale -a shows many options including en_GB and en_GB.utf-8
The only way that I have been able to change the locale is by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n. If I change that and then reboot it changes the locale. However what confuses me about this is that I can only change to a new locale, I can't seem to go back to a previous locale. For example, I started with en_US, changed it to en_GB which worked. Then I tried to change it back to en_US and nothing happened. After that I decided to try to see if it was only failing with en_US or if it would always fail. So I tried changing from en_GB to en_NZ which worked. Then I tried to go from en_NZ to en_US which failed. At this point I don't care as much about getting the right locale. I just want to know why it will change to something new, but not change back to a previous locale.
I have tested this on 6.4, 6.5, and 6.8 and get the same results. First I was running it on a VM using QEMU and VMM but I tried it on a physical machine and nothing changed. All of these were fresh installs, the first thing I did after completing the install was try to change the locale.
Any advice or explanation is appreciated, thanks in advance.
Zach