[Discuss] How to change language in debian ?

[chris wakefield]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 07:52, J.Bakshi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently I have installed debian at my friend's PC. during installation I
> selected *British English* as language setting. Now the problem is I can't
> get the *pipe* symbol rather than I am getting *tilde* sign. not only that
> some other symbol keys are also behaving differently. I think changing the
> language setting to *American English* may solve the problem. How can I do
> that ? please suggest.
>
> thanks for your time.
Hi J.
Interesting little challenge.  I think what you may want is this:
#install-keymap /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us either as user or root, not 
sure which.
Or, you could:
ls /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/
then make a choice from there.
There is a nice module in Gnome-Control-center, however, I never use Gnome 
Desktop, so I can't advise.
I found a Debian app: "KKBSwitch" that seems like a good GUI device to switch 
keyboard layouts, but not sure how it works, but it's worth a try.
Chris W.