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Chapter 12. Changing the system locale with cloud-init

You can configure the system locale with the locale module in cloud-init by adding the locale directive to your configuration.

Prerequisites

  • Depending on the requirements of your datasource, edit the meta-data file. You can also add the following directive to the cloud.cfg file or the cloud.cfg.d directory.

Procedure

  • Add the locale directive, specifying the location. The following sample sets the locale to ja_JP (Japan) with UTF-8 encoding. 
#cloud-config
locale: ja_JP.UTF-8
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