#+date: <2014-02-21 00:00>
#+title: Configuring constant LANG variable

After setting your correct locale in the etc/locale.gen file and running
locale-gen, your system wide language gets set in Linux. Some
applications, however, reference the LANG variable in order to determine
language type. One in particular that I am fond of is sublime text. This
isn't an issue until you install the package manager - which you will
probably want to do eventually.

A temporary fix, as the error logged will inform you, is to set the LANG
variable either before or with the startup of sublime text.

However, this may not always be viable, and can be annoying. There are
two solutions to set this variable upon system startup.

A "hacky" way to get around this problem would be to set the LANG
variable within your .bashrc file, as such:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
  export LANG ="en\_US.UTF-8"
#+END_QUOTE

However, the above only sets the variable for your user/login session.

To set the LANG variable system wide(the prefferred method), edit or
create the file /etc/locale.conf to contain:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
  LANG ="en\_US.UTF-8"
#+END_QUOTE

And upon restart your LANG variable will be set correctly.