{"id":1474,"date":"2019-03-02T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T02:27:06","slug":"how-to-configure-locale-settings-of-raspbian-stretch-with-raspi-config","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-locale-settings-of-raspbian-stretch-with-raspi-config\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure locale settings of Raspbian Stretch with raspi-config"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locales are a framework to switch between multiple languages and allow users to use their language, country, characters, collation order and etc. Therefore, it is an important setting to configure before using your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/glossary\/raspberry-pi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, let us look at how we can configure locale settings of Raspbian Stretch with <code>raspi-config<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>First, start a Terminal window by clicking on the highlighted icon at the top:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-desktop-with-a-terminal-window.jpg\" alt=\"Raspbian Stretch 20181113 desktop with a terminal window\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Once the terminal window had started, type the following command in the terminal window:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nsudo raspi-config\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-terminal-window-with-sudo-raspi-config.jpg\" alt=\"Raspbian Stretch 20181113 terminal window with sudo raspi-config\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After <code>raspi-config<\/code> loads in your terminal, go through the following screens to configure that locale settings of your Raspbian Stretch:<\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Localisation Options<\/strong> on the first menu of <code>raspi-config<\/code>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/raspi-config-on-Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-with-Localisation-Options-selected.png\" alt=\"raspi-config on Raspbian Stretch 20181113 with Localisation Options selected\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Localisation Options screen loads, choose <strong>Change Locale<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/raspi-config-on-Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-with-Change-Locale-selected.jpg\" alt=\"raspi-config on Raspbian Stretch 20181113 with Change Locale selected\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, <code>raspi-config<\/code> will show a screen for you to add new locales. Browse through the list and select those locales that you wish to install on your Raspbian Stretch. Once you had done so, type <strong>Tab<\/strong> on your keyboard to select <strong>Ok<\/strong> and then type <strong>Enter<\/strong> on your keyboard to continue:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/raspi-config-on-Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-showing-menu-to-install-new-locales.jpg\" alt=\"raspi-config on Raspbian Stretch 20181113 showing menu to install new locales\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you had chosen what locales to install, choose a default locale for your system environment:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/raspi-config-on-Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-showing-menu-to-choose-default-locale-for-system-environment.jpg\" alt=\"raspi-config on Raspbian Stretch 20181113 showing menu to choose default locale for system environment\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you do so, <code>raspi-config<\/code> will generate the new locales that you had selected and configure the default locale. Once it had completed that, it returns back to the first menu screen. Select <strong>Finish<\/strong> to end the configuration session:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-raspi-config-initial-screen-with-Finish-selected.jpg\" alt=\"Raspbian Stretch 20181113 raspi-config initial screen with Finish selected\" \/><\/p>\n\n      <ul id=\"social-sharing-buttons-list\">\n        <li class=\"facebook\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp245TQ-nM\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ph\/img\/3rd-party\/social-icons\/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook icon\"> Share\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n        <li class=\"twitter\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp245TQ-nM&via=Techcoil_com\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ph\/img\/3rd-party\/social-icons\/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter icon\"> Tweet\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n        <li class=\"linkedin\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=1&title=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp245TQ-nM&source=https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ph\/img\/3rd-party\/social-icons\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"Linkedin icon\"> Share\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n        <li class=\"pinterest\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techcoil.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1474&description=\" class=\"pin-it-button\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"nofollow\" count-layout=\"horizontal\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ph\/img\/3rd-party\/social-icons\/Pinterest.png\" alt=\"Pinterest icon\"> Save\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locales are a framework to switch between multiple languages and allow users to use their language, country, characters, collation order and etc. Therefore, it is an important setting to configure before using your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/glossary\/raspberry-pi\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, let us look at how we can configure locale settings of Raspbian Stretch with <code>raspi-config<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[604,240,412,557,596],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/raspi-config-on-Raspbian-Stretch-20181113-with-Change-Locale-selected.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p245TQ-nM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}