US English Only

[mjb]

Getting desktop text in English and what appears to be Arabic.

Went to System Locals and unchecked all but en.us-ISO-8859-1 which did not resolve the issue

How to I get to US English only ?

Thank you

[Eadwine Rose]

When you are on the login screen on the top right there is a flag, click that one, and select what you want.

[fehlix]

Getting desktop text in English and what appears to be Arabic.

Went to System Locals and unchecked all but en.us-ISO-8859-1 which did not resolve the issue

How to I get to US English only ?

Thank you

Probaly you left ar_EG Arabic locale for Egypt selected
and you have not selected en_US.UTF-8 to be generated.
The locale
en_US.ISO-8859-1
is "meant" to be an additional locale to en_US.UTF-8,
b/c MX Linux is mainly an UTF-8 based system.

So, what happened:
With the login-screen it would only show available UTF-8 locale to select from on the upper bar (normally right upper corner, but with Arabic as system locale it maybe the left upper corner.).
And b/c no en_US.UTF-8 is available the first available locale (=language) in the list ar_EG would have been
pre-selected, which turns your desktop into Arabic localized one.

Now the fix:
Do run again System Locales
and do de-select/un-select any none English
and do include
en_US.UTF-8

For system locale do select also
en_US.UTF-8

In case you get the locale Arabic window,
you can run it in English C-locale like this:
Open Terminal and run

Code: Select all

sudo LANG=C.UTF-8 system-locales-mx

When done logout and check / select locale to en_US at the login screen.