How to change a system locale on RHEL7 Linux

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Use localectl to see your currently active locale on Redhat 7 Linux. For example:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us

Using localectl command and its set-locale option we are able to set system locale to any locale listed by localectl list-locale command. Below we will set a system locale to en_AU.iso88591:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl set-locale LANG=en_AU.iso88591
[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_AU.iso88591
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us

Please not the VC Keymap and X11 Layout must be set separately.

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