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kramer65
Asked: 2018-02-05 13:55:37 +0800 CST

How to have GUI in Dutch and terminal output in English?

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I've got Ubuntu installed with Dutch as my language. I often work in the terminal and many of the outputs are in Dutch as well. This is very inconvenient though, because I often need to search for error messages I get, and on the interwebs error messages are unfortunately easier found in English than in Dutch.

Is there a way to have all terminal output in English, while all GUI's are in Dutch?

All tips are welcome!

command-line locale language

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To change it persistently, so you always have English when opening a terminal window, open the ~/.bashrc file for editing and add these lines:

    export LANGUAGE=en_US
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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