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I have freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my net book,by mistake i choosed wrong language not a english now i want to change my default language back to my loving English I tried to set english via language support tool but still by folder names display in other lanuage rather than english

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  • Do you mean by folder names your Nautilus Bookmarks like Videos, Documents, Pictures, Downloads,... ? If so, you would have to rename the folders by hand, because they wouldn't be affected by a change of your default language.
    – martin
    Nov 19, 2011 at 22:11
  • askubuntu.com/q/130649/39372
    – Tachyons
    Apr 19, 2013 at 14:28

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Go to System Settings -> User Accounts. The second entry is the user's language, you will be able to change it to english from there.

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  • Thanks For comment i already did that but my folder names still dispkay ing Other Lang(Tamil)
    – Roshan
    Nov 19, 2011 at 15:04
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    try running 'gnome-language-selector' from the command line. It'll open up a graphical interface, which lets you set the language system wide. I don't know why the system settings wouldn't do that, though...
    – ovangle
    Nov 19, 2011 at 21:17
  • How to do this in bash?
    – C.C.
    Apr 21, 2012 at 11:01
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    When my PC randomly decided it was chinese, this fixed my problem - but you do have to guess that the first entry is "english"...
    – hwjp
    Apr 22, 2012 at 10:50

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