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Asked: 2012-05-06 14:17:36 +0800 CST

Gnome-classic language turned into Chinese, how do I change it back to English? [duplicate]

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enter image description hereMy newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 gnome-classic just turned into chinese locale after reboot, how do I change it back to English?

I can't find any language menus, and the ones I opened are, well, in chinese...

When I open a terminal and execute gnome-language-selector, I get lots of this in the prompt:

locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

If I go to the Language section in Users, I only get the options in the picture.

locale gnome-classic 12.04

4 Answers

  1. Solution:

    1. Edit /etc/default/locale:

      LANG="en_US"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

    2. Edit ~/.pam_environment:

      LANG=en_US
Language=en_US

    Logout and Login or Reboot.

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  2. Best Answer

    I'd recommend you login into the Unity session, because I'm not sure where I can find all of these options in a Gnome Classic session.

    Click on your username in the upper right corner of the screen, and choose the bottom option in the menu that pops out.

    User menu

    In the dialog that opens, the second option allows you to change your language.

    User account

    Change it back to English, or whatever language you like. Then, reboot.

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  3. I have the same problem y I solved just one min ago.

    You have to select the first language option, and then relogin the Gnome session.

    NOTE: if you do any changes from the Unity session, you will not sew a result.

    Cheers!

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  4. Having just faced a similar issue, I resolved it by translating my language choice into traditional Chinese using Google Translate, then pattern-matched. In the screenshot in the question, the first entry translates as "English" and the second as "English (United Kingdom)". Picking one and logging out then in should reset the UI.

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