Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 04:35:56 +0000, Foss User wrote:
> I want that when Debian boots and I log into gnome and open
> gnome-terminal, echo $LANG shows en_US instead of en_IN.
> 
> I found that in /etc/environment, the content was:
> 
> LANG="en_IN"
> 
> So, I changed it to LANG="en_US" and rebooted the system. But after
> rebooting and opening gnome-terminal, I find echo $LANG to output
> en_IN again.
> 
> So, where should I make this change so that after rebooting echo $LANG
> outputs en_US ?

I think /etc/environment is depreciated; try changing the setting in
/etc/default/locale instead. (That should work to set $LANG for your
system at boot; I have no idea if Gnome has a mechanism to override that
once it starts.)

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