[Discuss] How to change language in debian ?

[Alan Wardroper]

This should help:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install debconf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Or you could add something like the following lines to /etc/environment

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

If you want different locales for different users, you can add that to their
.bashrc files

Here's some links that touch on what you're looking for:

http://gallery.menalto.com/wiki/Debian_locale_HowTo
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html


On 11/21/06, J.Bakshi <bakshi12 at gmail.com> 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.
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