# LINUX: locale & localectl — The Linux Locale Settings

You can get or set the **locale** settings in a linux environment (tried in fedora) by using the command :

```bash
localectl
```

You can remember it as **Locale Control**

You can also get more locale information by simply executing the command:

```bash
locale
```

To learn all the possible locale languages type this in terminal:

```bash
locale -a
```

To set locale (to change locale language setting), you can do something like this example:

```bash
localectl set-locale LANG=fr_FR.utf8
```

Also to temporarily to execute any command in a different language, prefix the command with the LANG=<appropriate languagr> <command>. For example:

```bash
LANG=fr_FR.utf8 date
```

To learn more about locale always take help of documentations.