ubuntu change default language to english

Category-specific variables beginning with LC_: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_TIME, ….

LC_ALL - overrides category-specific settings, meant primarily to be used by programs that want to run in the default locale.Unfortunately, some versions of Ubuntu set it, so you may need to unset it. LANGUAGE - don't use it, it's rarely useful and can cause bugs.There are four layers of variables the first one that is set takes precedence: This is configured via locale settings, which can be set via environment variable. You can find the needed values by invoking the following command env |egrep -e 'LC_ALL|LANG' Adapting to your languageĮxtending the code to your native language is quite simple. In general I suggest to change all 3 environment variables LC_ALL, LANG, LANGUAGE to avoid misbehaviours of some programs. MM_CHARSET='utf-8' # independent from localeĮxport LC_ALL LANG LANGUAGE LC_PAPER LESSCHARSET MM_CHARSET LESSCHARSET='utf-8' # independent from locale

LC_PAPER='de_DE.UTF-8' # independent from locale To use this, put it in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile)-Ĭall it with _configure_locale EN to switch to English. You may extend this code with your preferred languages. Which is a very bad thing because then the default arguments Y/N become exchanged by J/N etc.Here is my bash function to switch between DE and EN locales. Nach dieser Operation werden 0B Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt. but for example apt is not: prag341:~# apt-get upgradeĭie folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert:ġ aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.Įs müssen 4,346B an Archiven heruntergeladen werden. Then i did dpkg-reconfigure locales which configured all the locales and after log out and relogin almost everything was in english. (this is the file i commonly remember from debian systems to hold the locale)

LANGUAGE='de_DE:en_US:de_LU:de_CH:de_BE:de_AT'Īnd after searching forums I installed update-locale which generated the file /etc/default/locale PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games' I adapted /etc/environment PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games' So the upgrade worked smoothly, but now I am trying to change the system to english. I got a new server but unfortunately the hoster only installs me Ubuntu 8.04 in german.

Ubuntu change default language to english