easiest way to change my locale?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 15 21:59:15 UTC 2008


On 11/14/2008 08:34 PM, H.S. wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:22:36PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
>>> I am wondering if there is an easy way change the locale being used by a
>>> user. A GUI method would be desirable. If not, the eastest method to
>>> change it via text files would be next. But either way, I hope it is
>>> doable by every user (without needing admin privileges) and is straight
>>> forward.
>> 
>> There's an option to select your language in the login screen (gdm).  It
>> actually selects the locale.
>> 
>> Marius Gedminas
>> 
> 
> Thanks for that info. However, once a user has selected a locale, how
> does the user then do I just change the time format or any other
> particular aspect of the locale?
> 

These may help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
and read this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/151481
you'll find good info from sktsee about 3/4 the way down the thread.






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