Why has my distro started to speak German with me?

Schopenhauer101 · 01-15-2005, 04:44 PM

Hi!
I had a nasty experience for a day ago. my mbr and partitiontable dissapered but due to the help of some very kind people at this site together with my own efforts i managed to make it work again. i had to reinstall grub to get my dualboootsystem running again. But something weird happend. The booting became different. The vga boot became very largesized, tux dissapered from the top left corner of the screeen, some complain of mounting hda that seems to be false alarm because everything works fine, but worst of all, EVERYTHING that at the command line is in german not english anymore. Most software is in german too! Its so confusing coz i cant even understand fdisk which i need to use on a external HD. My debian installation orginates from knoppix so maybe it isnt a typical debian way of fixing it i do not know.

Any help would be great because i cant fix this on my own.

Take care/
Björn

kostian · 01-15-2005, 05:16 PM

Hi.
what is your current locale set to? you can check it by typing

Code:

$ locale

you should be able to change it to en_US(or whichever you need) by

Code:

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

then relogin for it to take effect.

Schopenhauer101 · 01-15-2005, 05:28 PM

Thats it!

When writing locales this happens:

QUOTE]LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE@euro"[/QUOTE]

Not at all what i want.

When i use "dpkg-reconfigure locales":

Quote:

─┤ Konfiguriere locales ├─────────────────────────┐
│ Standorteinstellungen ist ein Rahmen, um zwischen mehreren Sprachen zu │
│ wechseln, für Benutzer, die Ihre Sprache, Ihr Land, Ihren Zeichensatz, │
│ Ihre Sortierreihenfolge usw. auswählen können. │
│ │
│ Sie können hier Standorteinstellungen auswählen, die jetzt generiert │
│ werden sollen. Diese Einstellung wird in '/etc/locale-gen' gespeichert. │
│ Sie können diese Datei auch manuell ändern. Starten Sie nach der │
│ Änderung 'locale-gen'. │
│ │
│ Wählen Sie die zu generierende Standorteinstellungen aus. │
│ │
│ [ ] aa_DJ ISO-8859-1 # │
│ [ ] aa_ER@saaho UTF-8 ▒ │
│ [ ] aa_ER UTF-8 ▒ │
│ │
│ │
│ <Ok> <Abbrechen> │
│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

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Can i make this happen in english so that i understand what too choose?
I dont now how to change locales yet but ill google around if no one has the time to help me with that procedure.

Thanks for the fast reply!

/Björn

kostian · 01-16-2005, 03:35 AM

Code:

$ su
# export LC_ALL=en_US
# dpkg-reconfigure locales

and the dialog will be in english.
edit: or put
en_US ISO-8859-1
to your /etc/locale.gen and run # locale-gen