How to list all available locales on RHEL7 Linux

The following linux command will list all available locales currently available on the Redhat 7 system:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl list-locales

The list of all available locales on your system my be quite long so use grep command to narrow down your search. Bellow command will display for example all German available locales:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl list-locales | grep ^de
de_AT
de_AT.iso88591
de_AT.iso885915@euro
de_AT.utf8
de_AT@euro
de_BE
de_BE.iso88591
de_BE.iso885915@euro
de_BE.utf8
de_BE@euro
de_CH
de_CH.iso88591
de_CH.utf8
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE.utf8
de_DE@euro
de_LU
de_LU.iso88591
de_LU.iso885915@euro
de_LU.utf8
de_LU@euro
deutsch

If you need to display a currently set locale on your system run localectl command without any options or arguments. This will show currently active locale as well as key mapping and keyboard layout:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl
   System Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us

The above is a abbreviated alternative to:

[root@rhel7 ~]# localectl status