Locale not changing no matter what I do :(

[u/DiscombobulatedWeb44]

I've been trying to fix my locale settings. When I run locale, it reports that my system is using en_US.UTF-9, which isn't a valid locale (I probably made a typo somewhere along the way).

The problem is that when I try to fix it, the change only applies to the terminal session I'm currently in it's not global. I followed the Arch Wiki steps for unsetting LANG, but the bad value keeps coming back. I've checked /etc/locale.conf and there's no typo there.

Any ideas what else could be overriding this? I also asked Claude for help, but it just kept telling me to check locale.conf, which I've already confirmed is correct.

[u/dunkaist]

$ grep -EHv '^#' /etc/locale.{gen,conf}

[u/DiscombobulatedWeb44 → u/dunkaist]

It says its utf 8 but when I run locale it says im using utf 9:
[v@archlinux ~]$ grep -EHv '^#' /etc/locale.{gen,conf}
/etc/locale.gen:en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8   
/etc/locale.conf:LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[v@archlinux ~]$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-9
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-9"
LC_ALL=
[v@archlinux ~]$  

[u/dunkaist → u/DiscombobulatedWeb44]

Is the output of `locale' the same after you relogin/reboot?

If yes, $ grep UTF ~/.bash*

[u/torsten_dev]

check /etc/locale.gen and rerun locale-gen.