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Aron Rotteveel
Asked: 2011-02-02 04:45:19 +0800 CST

Applying languages / locale selectively: is it possible?

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I am a Dutch user and prefer the my local date & time format, system wide. I have no trouble speaking or understanding English and find it very useful to have the rest of my system configured in English to make my life easier when I need to Google a term, for example.

Is it possible to apply the a local date/time/currency/etc. format to the system, while maintaining English menu & dialog captions?

10.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Abolutely,

    • go to System → Administration → Language Support

    • at Language, select English as your default language:

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    • And in the Text tab, choose Dutch as your preffered Locale for numbers, dates and currency.

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    I've been using this setting for a long time, and it's a bit weird sometimes, you may see something like "This file was modified on Maandag...", but it works very well with most apps.

    After a bit of troubleshooting, it turns out you also have to:

    • Click 'Apply System-Wide'

    • Reboot

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  2. For some reason it seems to work now.

    What I did:

    • Click 'Apply System-Wide'
    • Reboot

    I'd swear I did this before, but logic is against me.

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  3. For Ubuntu 11.10

    • Go to System setings → Language Support
    • At Language, select English as your default language
    • Click Install/ remove languages...
    • Make sure the language you want for your date, time and currency is installed
    • Go to the Regional formats tab to select your preferred locale for time, date and currency
    • Ignore the error in the example
    • Click Apply system-wide and reboot
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