Change Terminal Language

[uraclea2002]

My terminal language is set on German. I need to change it to English to be able to make any sese of it. Man pages, errors, etc. How do I do this?

Thank you,
-Bob

[uraclea2002]

After some searching I have checked /etc/sysconfig/i18n, or something very similar and lang is already set to US. Any one have ideas?

[Markus]

So did it look something like this?

LANG="C"
COUNTRY="us"
LANGUAGE="us"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
XMODIFIERS=""

What does the command env return?

[firebyrd10]

type lang=us at start up.

[uraclea2002]

So did it look something like this?

LANG="C"
COUNTRY="us"
LANGUAGE="us"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
XMODIFIERS=""

What does the command env return?

Env
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
SSH_AGENT_PID=1999
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,method=classic
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/bob/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/bob/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/bob/.gtkrc:/home/bob/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
GS_LIB=/home/rfauth/.fonts
WINDOWID=37748743
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
USER=bob
XCURSOR_SIZE=
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XufUaS1974/agent.1974
SESSION_MANAGER=local/Knoppix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2058
KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-2168,konsole)
DESKTOP_SESSION=default
PATH=/home/bob/.dist/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/lib/oss/bin
KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-2168,session-1)
PWD=/home/bob
LANG=de_DE@euro
SHLVL=2
HOME=/home/bob
LANGUAGE=de
XCURSOR_THEME=default
LOGNAME=bob
DISPLAY=:0.0
COLORTERM=
_=/usr/bin/env

Why does it say DE here? /etc/sysconfig/i8n states lang=us

Ok, this is wierd. I just checked /sysconfig/i18n again and all is set to de?
going to change to "us"

[uraclea2002]

Well, I may be going crazy.
I edited the /etc/sysconfig/i18n again, changed settings as Markus noted, and all is well.
Thank you.

[uraclea2002]

Well, I may be going crazy.
I edited the /etc/sysconfig/i18n again, changed settings as Markus noted, and all is well.
Thank you.

Update: After rebooting all is set to German again. What can I edit to make this stick?

[Markus]

Hmm, strange... Do you by chance have a Knoppix style hd-install?
Have you seen this: http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4030
One of the solutions there should work. I would start at the part about editing /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

[uraclea2002]

Hmm, strange... Do you by chance have a Knoppix style hd-install?
Have you seen this: http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4030
One of the solutions there should work. I would start at the part about editing /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

Yes, I do. And thank you for pointing out that thread. I did not find that in researching this problem. The fix at the end, editing /etc/init.d/knoppix-config, has corrected the problem.
Thanks again Markus!

[Markus]

You're welcome.