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authorGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-06-16 16:05:42 +0100
committerGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-06-16 16:19:48 +0100
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Commands are intended to be run via the terminal or over ssh.
+## Set the locale
+
+**Debian Squeeze**
+
+Follow the [Debian guide](https://wiki.debian.org/Locale#Standard) for configuring the locale of the operating system.
+
+Generate the locales you wish to make available. When the interactive screen asks you to pick a default locale, choose "None", as the SSH session will provide the locale required.
+
+ # dpkg-reconfigure locales
+
+Start a new SSH session to use your SSH locale.
## Get Alaveteli