Is it okay to install a .deb that wasn't made for your version

[Tim Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 01:10 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> ok I am a SOHO user.No geek kind of stuff.You can understand from my
> questions easily.
> /etc/default/locale is already there to en_US.UTF-8 but this problem
> is still there
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/100684/unwanted-chinese-language-got-set-in-system-settings
> https://picasaweb.google.com/107404068162388981296/UnknownAsianLanguage#5704438714062026210

The language-selector program can be started by running the command
gnome-language-selector
So I'd try searching for that in the Unity interface first and see if it
finds that program.

If not you can try opening a terminal window and then running the
command gnome-language-selector, and if it doesn't start the language
selector program please copy and paste the output from the terminal and
reply to this email. 
(See here for instructions on opening a terminal:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
Note that even if the interface is not in English searching for
'terminal' should still show the terminal program (I think :)).

Let us know how it goes.

Tim