[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.  Upon further investigation, I would suggest looking into the #locale 
command to change your language setting.
Chris W.