Locale

Configure the locale and keyboard layout in Raspbian

I have a keyboard with the spanish layout (with the “ñ” key, etc.) but Raspbian comes by default only with the english locale and keyboard layout. To make my keyboard work correctly I first added the spanish es_ES.UTF-8 locale on the…

Disable automatic locale variables setting in terminal emulator for Mac OS X

Terminal emulators usually send your current locale when conecting to an SSH server. I use Mac OS X in spanish and when I connected to a CentOS server my locale was automatically configured to…

Fix locale problems in Raspbian

If you get errors like this while running commands on your Raspbian:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "es_ES.utf-8"…