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I'm trying out 14.04 using a USB drive. The first time I did this everything came up in German (which I was able to negotiate with some difficulty). The second time everything came up in Spanish, which I hardly know at all. I tried setlocale, but I get no se encontró la orden, which I guess means "command not found." (For some reason sudo setlocale returns the same message -- but in English!) Here is what's in /etc/default/locale:

LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"

So how do I change that first line -- can I just edit the file /etc/default/locale?

muru
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All that was necessary to fix the language problem: editing /etc/default/locale and correcting the first line to read

 LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

like the other lines. After a reboot everything was fine.

As muru stated: I didn't need to generate new locales as en_US.UTF-8 was already used on my system

guntbert
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