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Questions tagged [system-language]

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How to change language only for terminal

I'm using Arabic as the default language but there are some issues when displaying it in terminal. So I want to change the language only in terminal to English, how can I do that ?
Burawi
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Change keyboard back to English in command line from Cyrillic

I switched to Russian keyboard via loadkeys ru command and now cannot switch back. A directory and subsequent files I have are titled in Cyrillic characters and I am trying to get to them by a combination of commands in Latin characters and…
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How can I rename the Desktop folder after changing the system language?

I just switched my Ubuntu system language from French to English. I have been asked if I wanted to create new folders (Desktop, Pictures, ...), I said yes. My old files were not moved, but now I have a Bureau (French for Desktop) and a Desktop…
azerty
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How can I change the language from UK to US?

My keyboard layout is UK, so I must keep the UK layout. How can I change the system language (including dictionaries in browsers, libreoffice, etc) to US English? I tried to change it from Language support, but English (US) is not active to be…
Googlebot
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How to change month name to english?

My calender screenshot : How I can change to English day names or other things?
Chalist
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Is there a Ubuntu in other languages (for example Russian)?

I would really like to move to Ubuntu and transfer all my gadgets (desktops, laptops, smartphones, etc.) to this wonderful operating system, but only one thing stops me - support of the Russian language, as I am not a single user of all these…
Vert Batyr
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Calling for executables not yet installed displays a message in German

Calling any executable which is not yet installed results in a message which is not easy to understand: $ tcl Der Befehl \xbbtcl\xab wurde nicht gefunden, meinten Sie vielleicht: Befehl \xbbtel\xab aus dem Paket \xbborville-write\xab (universe) …
BogdanBiv
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Unable to toggle between input methods using Fcitx

I'm using fcitx for system input and I have more than one language installed. I cannot toggle between different languages with the correct hot key. Explicitly clicking the "input method" in the drop down menu bar doesn't work either, the "input…
Minghan Chen
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How do I change the system language to German in Ubuntu 16.04 via terminal?

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with LXDE desktop: I'm trying to change the language to German, but I'm not sure how. Any advice for me?
Tsung-Li Wang
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Where to put export LC_ALL=C?

I ran it once, but my terminal native language went back to Finnish. I've tried unsuccessfully .bashrc and .profile. I have followed the thread here about How to set all locale settings in Ubuntu. I have also tried to setup English as locale: sudo…
Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
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Does vim support unicode?

I recently changed my system language to Tamil (a language used in India) from English. While I was enjoying Ubuntu in Tamil, my favorite editor vim has run into an issue because of the system language change, it seems. How can I fix this?
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Xubuntu 12.04: wrong time; change system language

I have recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my rather old computer. Most of the things are fine but I have a couple of problems. During the installation I was asked to choose a language and I chose English. However, now I want to change the language…
ex_Windows_user
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Font has been changed

why has the font of my terminal been changed?
Hasnat Pie
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System font is unreadable. How can it be changed?

What can I do? I just updated from 17.04 to 17.10 and the following display error occurs, I do not know what it can be, I can not reinstall it right now. Is there any way to fix it?
Manuel Villanueva
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How to use the ISU thousands separator (space)?

I have the Regional Formats set to "English (Ireland)" in my home system. However, this produces numbers with a coma as a thousand separator in all programmes dependent on this setting, e.g.: 1,234,567.89 Ireland (as most other countries in the…
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