System language for Debian Linux - Chirag Patel December 30, 2008
I ran into a simple but typical issue.
I was installing Debian 4 (kernel 2.6) today using minimal boot image CD and out of curiocity I selected its installation language to Gujarati. All screens showed almost 90% of the content in Gujarati (incorrectly translated at many places though). I select “English -US” as my choice of language for system locales. But, after installation and reboot, all the user screens had weird characters on screen (I was expecting English). I kept looking for a way to change locales and did this:
- I opened root terminal.
- Entered following command:
chirag@work~# dpkg-reconfigure locales
- I selected “en-US-utf-8″ from the list shown.
- After OKing this and rebooting the system, I found characters known to me!
Posted under Infrastructure, Linux
This post was written by Chirag on December 31, 2008
