# salt.states.locale

## Management of languages/locales

Manage the available locales and the system default:

    us_locale:
      locale.present:
        - name: en_US.UTF-8

    default_locale:
      locale.system:
        - name: en_US.UTF-8
        - require:
          - locale: us_locale

salt.states.locale.present(name)

  Generate a locale if it is not present

  Added in version 2014.7.0.

  name

    The name of the locale to be present. Some distributions require the charmap to be specified as part of the locale at this point.

salt.states.locale.system(name)

  Set the locale for the system

  name

    The name of the locale to use