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unable to reset default language in live usb mode

Asked by Nitesh Mistry

I am using the Ubuntu 8.10 installed on live-usb (persistence mode). On boot-up, I selected a local language (Hindi) for trial. After that session, I restarted the system and selected the default (English) language. However, it still boots in the local language. Even after a couple of restarts and selecting English, it is still the same. How do I reset the language to English? It also changes the language in Firefox, and tries to show a few words in Hindi (but does not translate or transliterate it correctly, because of which it all looks gibberish). I guess it may be useful to post contents of /etc/environment file as the same was asked by ubuntuforum.org member also

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
http_proxy="http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxx/"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
LANG="gu_IN"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
LANG="hi_IN"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"
RUNNING_UNDER_GDM="yes"

I tried changing values for all LANG lines to "en_US.UTF-8" but to no success.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Nitesh Mistry (mistrynitesh) said : 		#2

I am still unable to find a solution to this problem. I hope someone has at
least noticed the problem if not found a solution to it.

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said : 		#3

Hi,

Try to go to System -> Administration -> Language support

There is a list of languages and you can also chose the default launguage.

Does this help?

Cheers,

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Nitesh Mistry (mistrynitesh) said : 		#4

Had tried that but without any success. I finally reformatted the casper-rw
partition. This way, it removed all the personalisation settings and data in
home folder and reset the whole system as it was when I first created the
liveusb. Sorry for not updating this on launchpad.

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> Try to go to System -> Administration -> Language support
>
> There is a list of languages and you can also chose the default
> launguage.
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> Does this help?
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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) said : 		#5

Hi,

I have tested that method again on my computer and it was working.
In this case you should report it as a bug.

Cheers

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