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jaromil

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Registered: 2016-11-28

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[SOLVED] How to switch language (locale)

Dears, I recently experimented with switching languages on a minimal Devuan installation.

I learned that issuing a convoluted sequence of commands is necessary to switch languages! So I'll document them here, and also, I'll be grateful to anyone who manages to find a more straightforward way to do this.

For example, to switch language to Italian (it_IT.UTF-8), the commands (as root) are:

sed -i -e 's/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive locales
update-locale LANG=it_IT.UTF-8

Then any user willing to use the Italian language should do the following:

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8

Am I the only person thinking this is rather convoluted? Does anyone have a better way to do this?

ciao!

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andyp67

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Registered: 2022-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] How to switch language (locale)

come stai

an idea, first try, dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
I do this for font size because I am veteran war photographer WMD eyes damage.
Of course, install fonts.
Also, for me, I like ttf-bitstream-vera,
I go to /etc/fonts and I tar -cvf fonts.avail.tar fonts.avail and I tar -cvf fonts.d.tar fonts.d
so I have created tar backups (try reading them,)
so I can rm -r fonts.avail and fonts.d
which fucks ttf-dejavu all the beeping time,
and does not screw updates

off top head some ideas
andriko

andyp67

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Registered: 2022-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] How to switch language (locale)

I think Bill spent country GDP developing a particular font, something like that.
dpkg-reconfigure console-seup is cool, on the fly, no problem.
Reaching out to most devices, I like to style with font-family:tahoma; although verdana is similar.
I wish we still had ttf-thryomanes.
Stanley knife ttf-dejavu and enjoy the ttf-bitstream-vera experience.
ttf-dejavu is sickening.
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Last edited by andyp67 (2023-07-13 16:48:52)

tylerdurden

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Registered: 2018-07-16

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Re: [SOLVED] How to switch language (locale)

For me, a simple dpkg-reconfigure locales followed by apt update always did the trick if I ever wanted to use another language. apt seems to be fully translated but many man pages aren't. Not much of an issue on the desktop, though, unless you speak Klingon.