How to change default system locale in Ubuntu Advanced Linux Add comments May 112013 How to change default system locale in Ubuntu Answer: Edit the file "/etc/default/locale" to the locale you want. Related posts: Change your default locale on Ubuntu How to add a locale to Ubuntu server How to remove a locale in Ubuntu server How to change the default Ubuntu’s NTP server How to change the default runlevel? Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>