Solved: Re: ubuntu got set in some unknown asian language

[Tim Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 06:50 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Tim Edwards <liststuff at fastmail.com.au>
> > Well (also for future reference) all you had to do was drag and drop
> > your preferred language in the list in gnome-language-selector to the
> > top. I can see in your screenshot you had English still as the 2nd
> > language, underneath the Asian language in the list. English or
> > English(Australia) should've been the top.
> >
> > Of course if you prefer you can edit the 'export Language' and 'export
> > LC_XX' lines in ~/.profile directly too, since that's all
> > gnome-language-selector does anyway to change the active language, but
> > it's nicer using gnome-language-selector.
> >
> See here is the problem I had for the first time opened the language
> selector box.
> Which was displayed in Chinese.I had to drag and drop it I will be
> able to understand only if
> the message displayed was in English.Hope you got my point.I had no
> clue what to do with that so I had
> to manually edit the files.However finding the spot where exactly was
> the problem (Solution to which I posted)
> was not so easy as it appears in post.

Yes, I realise you couldn't read the text which tells you to drag the
languages around, I forgot to mention that bit, although if you google
for 'Change Language in Ubuntu' you can usually find a step-by-step
guide with screenshots.

Anyway my post was more for future reference since all this gets
archived. Summary: if you set your system to some language you can't
understand run gnome-language-selector and drag and drop the entry for
'English' to the top (the entry for English should always display with
English letters). Then logout and log back in, or restart. 

Tim