gedit --> tools --> set language question

rblampain · 04-23-2015, 04:18 AM

Restoring files from backup gives an annoying result, those files all need to be edited with "gedit" and each has lost the setting "tools --> set language", is there a way I can tell "gedit" to use a particular language for all files rather than doing it manually for each file. It looks like the default is American English but the text is in British English (for Australia).

Thank you for your help.

beachboy2 · 04-23-2015, 06:08 AM

rblampain,

Try this in Terminal:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

sudo update-locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

If further modifications are needed, then have a look at post #3 here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1669863

rblampain · 04-24-2015, 07:39 AM

This is all new territory for me and nothing worked, this is what I've done:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo update-locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

logged out and back in, en_US.UTF-8 was still the default, edited

Code:

/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop

from root by removing

Code:

Exec=gedit %U

and replacing with

Code:

Exec=sh -c 'LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 gedit %U'

also tried

Code:

Exec=bash -c 'LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 gedit %U'

and entering in a terminal

Code:

LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

There was no directory

Code:

.local/share/applications/

so I created one and copied the edited file

Code:

/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop

to

Code:

.local/share/applications/gedit.desktop

What did I do wrong?