Re: How to change language in console?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm now able to boot off the internal hard drive in single-user mode, 
> > but when I do things such as "man interfaces", the text comes up in 
> > German (I think). How do I change the language to American English? I 
> > thought maybe it had something to do with locales, but I can't quite 
> > wrap my head around how that works, and googling hasn't seemed to help 
> > me any.
> >    
>
> What does the 'locale' command print?
>  
Everything, except LC_ALL, was set to DE_something

> Locales are set in your environment. 'export LC_ALL=C' will probably do
> what you want.
>
>  
Great! Now "locale" shows everything to be set to C, and at first 
glance, it looks like things are in English.

So what's "C"?