topic Re: change the language locale in Operating System - Linux

change the language locale

peterchu — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:54:54 GMT

Now We have set to the language as "us" , how to change it to other language ? thx.

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:00:01 GMT

you have to set the variable like this:

LANG=us
export LANG

insert two lines to the .bashrc and you're set

peterchu — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:10:19 GMT

thx Alex 's reply .
if I want to change the system 's language locale , what can i do ? thx.

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:37:48 GMT

do the mentioned above...
to check what the language is set :
echo $LANG

Kodjo Agbenu — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:36:13 GMT

Hi,

On Red Hat, check /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

Good luck.

Kodjo

peterchu — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:21 GMT

thx Kodjo Agbenu,

one more question
I modified the language setting to the file , do I need to re-start the server ? thx in advance.