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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Changing your default language for redhat-based Linux Distribution

Gnome GUI
method 1. Go to System => Administration => Language then change your default language.
method 2. Open terminal then run system-config-language then change your default language.


Manually Edit Configuration
1. cd /etc/sysconfig

Make backup copy of your language setting file
2. cp i18n i18n.bak

Edit language setting file to allow english as default
3. vi i18n
5. Edit the file to include these lines as the first three lines of the file:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"

6. Save the file and restart system. If you can not restart the system you need to have permission to restart init.d

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