On Thursday, 18 June 2015 11:27:35 UTC-4, bock...@googlemail.com wrote:

Hello,

I am using debian-8 templates for my (non-net-)VMs. I noticed that locale is set to en_US, so I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales and built de_DE and set it as default in the template.

However this does not fix this issue. How can I properly change the template to German (or autodetect from dom0) so I have everything localized?

Here is one way to change locale (in TemplateVM):
localedef -f UTF-8 -i de_DE -c de_DE.UTF-8
update-locale LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8

And here is another (note the lowercase use of utf8)
localedef -f UTF-8 -i de_DE -c de_DE.UTF-8
localectl set-locale LANG=de_DE.utf8