Today for testing purpose I installed KDE alongside Cinnamon in Linux Mint 14. Unfortunately, after that my system language switch to Chinese!!! All the menus and notification is in Chinese now!! How can I switch back to English?
Linux Mint 14 system language turns into chinese. How can I switch back to English?
linux mint;kde;locale
You should be able to choose the language at the login screen. If not, open a terminal (you can use Alt+F2 to get the run dialog) and run (source):echo -e 'LANG=en_US\nLANGUAGE=en_US:en' | sudo tee /etc/default/localeecho -e 'LANG=en_US\nLanguage=en_US' > ~/.pam_environmentThen log out and log back in again.EDIT (in response to the OP's comment)The commands above are just a quick way of editing a couple of text files. If they don't work for whatever reason, you can just edit the files manually using a text editor (I believe the default on KDE is write). So, open a terminal and run:sudo kwrite /etc/default/locale` Edit the file to contain only these lines:LANG=en_USLANGUAGE=en_US:enNow open ~/.pam_environment:sudo kwrite ~/.pam_environmentEdit the file to contain only these lines:LANG=en_USLanguage=en_USTake care: if you write and save the incorrect values to your locale, you might have troubles on booting.