Everything in SU is in German???

All programs opened in SU mode are in German. I tried opening kcontrol from Konsole in SU mode to try to set the language, but I get this error:

lib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server.
kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kded: cannot connect to X server :0.0
kded: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kcontrol: cannot connect to X server :0.0
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
ERROR: Communication problem with kcontrol, it probably crashed.

Is there a way to change the language settings. Forgive me for being a n00b.

kcontrol is the gui control center
you won't get that to run in a console

you need
gui
Knoppix
Control Center
System Administration
Login Manager
Language

I'm not following you here.

I need to change the language in the SU (or root) account to english. My user account is fine.

try to run from console as root: dpkg-reconfigure locales

I hope this will help you

B.R.
Mikek

Thank you very much

I hope that this helps:-

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26219