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Language change help

Asked by Spencer Bender on 2010-12-25

My idiot brother thought he'd be funny and change the language in ubuntu 10.10 from the login screen to what I think is chinese. Not sure which one. But I really want to change it back to english. By changing the language to chinese at the login he has effectively changed the language for almost all applications and menus. It makes it hard to do what I want. If there is a way that I can change the default language via command line back to english that would be a huge help.

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu ubuntu-meta Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Sam_

Solved:: 2010-12-26

Last query:: 2010-12-26

Last reply:: 2010-12-25

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Ted C (tedc) said on 2010-12-25:

I don't know how change from the terminal but hopefully there are enough graphics in the below to find your way to - System > Administration > Language support (UN blue with UN graphic on folder).

I think don't install, and select the system wide option.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17528/change-the-user-interface-language-in-ubuntu/