Wolfman
Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:39:22 pm
Hi,
Go to the Control Center and start "Language Support" then click on add/remove languages, make sure that the only language in the list is the one you want, example: English. Take the tick out of any unwanted languages and leave only one tick in English!!.
If you are having problems with language on your PC; install the package "localepurge" to rid your PC of all unwanted language packages!!. Select which packages you wish to keep during the installation of the package (localepurge), you need to make sure that all the different packages for the same language are marked!!. (A good example is French as there is Swiss French; Belgium French and French!)
I suggest that the default repository for your downloads; should be "Main".
See also:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/289190/h ... m-language
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17528/ch ... in-ubuntu/
This is my own guide using German as my example.
open language support in the Systems Settings menu and click on "Install/Remove Languages" then put a tick in the box for German, at the same time, take out the tick for the English language:
Click on "Apply Changes" and let it do its thing, you will be asked for your password:
Now you will see in the main window that "Deutsch" is showing faintly in the list, we need to left mouse click and hold it down and push "Deutsch" up to the top of the list, once you have pushed it to the top; click on "Apply System Wide", now go to "Regional Formats and select Deutsch (Deutschland) and "Apply system Wide", then close the window and restart your PC:
When you restart your PC, you will be asked whether you want to change the names of your folders to the new default language, say yes and then all your system folders will change to the newly installed language, in this case "German":
Reset Ubuntu Locales Manually:
Make sure that you have installed your desired country locale files before you start doing the following!.
To manually reset your system locale should the above not have worked for you, you need to make yourself "root", open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + t and enter the following command:
Enter your password and navigate through your home folder: Computer (or File System) > Etc > Default > Locale
You will now have a file that looks like this, I will be using German for my example, you need to replace the appropriate lines (Lang & Language) with your desired country locale!.
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
In my example, you need to change the top two lines to look like this, edit/replace "en_EN" with "de_DE":
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
(All the lines beginning with "LC" are still set to en_GB, which is what I want, you would need to make sure that all yours are set to "de_DE" as per my example language!.)
Once you have made your changes, click on "File" > "Save" close Gedit and restart your PC, your system should restart in the desired language and you will be asked to change the folder names which you should do!.
See also:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/lo ... reset-them
If your language still doesn't change; you need to open: > For Zorin OS 6: System Settings > Hardware > Keyboard > Layout Settings > Formats. For Zorin OS 9: System Settings > Hardware > Keyboard > Text Entry and select your language from the list and restart your PC:
Zorin 9:
Zorin 6:
If you only want extra language support but still want your system in English, open Synaptic and type "libreoffice french" or whatever language packages you need and select and install the results that show up. This will add language support for Libreoffice so you can type in languages other than English!.
Keyboard input method system
For languages with complicated symbols like Chinese/Vietnamese/Japanese etc, it is recommended you set "Keyboard input method system" to "IBus".
See also:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/lo ... reset-them
Adding more keyboard language support:
see this link:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17508/ad ... to-ubuntu/
See this link also about adding extra packages for mainly Asian languages:
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-h ... youts.html
Hope it helps.
Go to the Control Center and start "Language Support" then click on add/remove languages, make sure that the only language in the list is the one you want, example: English. Take the tick out of any unwanted languages and leave only one tick in English!!.
If you are having problems with language on your PC; install the package "localepurge" to rid your PC of all unwanted language packages!!. Select which packages you wish to keep during the installation of the package (localepurge), you need to make sure that all the different packages for the same language are marked!!. (A good example is French as there is Swiss French; Belgium French and French!)
I suggest that the default repository for your downloads; should be "Main".
See also:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/289190/h ... m-language
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17528/ch ... in-ubuntu/
This is my own guide using German as my example.
open language support in the Systems Settings menu and click on "Install/Remove Languages" then put a tick in the box for German, at the same time, take out the tick for the English language:
Click on "Apply Changes" and let it do its thing, you will be asked for your password:
Now you will see in the main window that "Deutsch" is showing faintly in the list, we need to left mouse click and hold it down and push "Deutsch" up to the top of the list, once you have pushed it to the top; click on "Apply System Wide", now go to "Regional Formats and select Deutsch (Deutschland) and "Apply system Wide", then close the window and restart your PC:
When you restart your PC, you will be asked whether you want to change the names of your folders to the new default language, say yes and then all your system folders will change to the newly installed language, in this case "German":
Reset Ubuntu Locales Manually:
Make sure that you have installed your desired country locale files before you start doing the following!.
To manually reset your system locale should the above not have worked for you, you need to make yourself "root", open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + t and enter the following command:
- Code:
gksudo nautilus
Enter your password and navigate through your home folder: Computer (or File System) > Etc > Default > Locale
You will now have a file that looks like this, I will be using German for my example, you need to replace the appropriate lines (Lang & Language) with your desired country locale!.
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
In my example, you need to change the top two lines to look like this, edit/replace "en_EN" with "de_DE":
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
(All the lines beginning with "LC" are still set to en_GB, which is what I want, you would need to make sure that all yours are set to "de_DE" as per my example language!.)
Once you have made your changes, click on "File" > "Save" close Gedit and restart your PC, your system should restart in the desired language and you will be asked to change the folder names which you should do!.
See also:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/lo ... reset-them
If your language still doesn't change; you need to open: > For Zorin OS 6: System Settings > Hardware > Keyboard > Layout Settings > Formats. For Zorin OS 9: System Settings > Hardware > Keyboard > Text Entry and select your language from the list and restart your PC:
Zorin 9:
Zorin 6:
If you only want extra language support but still want your system in English, open Synaptic and type "libreoffice french" or whatever language packages you need and select and install the results that show up. This will add language support for Libreoffice so you can type in languages other than English!.
Keyboard input method system
For languages with complicated symbols like Chinese/Vietnamese/Japanese etc, it is recommended you set "Keyboard input method system" to "IBus".
See also:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/lo ... reset-them
Adding more keyboard language support:
see this link:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17508/ad ... to-ubuntu/
See this link also about adding extra packages for mainly Asian languages:
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-h ... youts.html
Hope it helps.
