Following the steps in the thread How to change Date/Time format to English? I got my Language Support app crashed, so I wonder if it is possible to change the language of the calendar from the command line.
2 Answers
You are probably on Ubuntu 16.04, and have run into this bug. I recommend that you either wait a few days until it has been fixed through the package updates, or install accountsservice from xenial-proposed in accordance with comment #5 in the bug report.
by changing locale
update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
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This might changed the way how the format of the timestring the clock uses, nevertheless the language of the calendar remained the same.– MatsmathMay 17, 2016 at 20:13
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system settings > useraccounts and try to change language there? or this package: packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=language-selector May 17, 2016 at 20:19
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I checked
locale
and there half of the things were changed only to en_US.UTF-8. So I changedLC_ALL
toen_US.UTF-8
. A logout was also necessary to update these changes. Please improve your answer.– MatsmathMay 17, 2016 at 20:20 -
Well, neither the above answer nor @Matsmaths idea is a good idea, since they both break the handling of languages/locales via the Language Support GUI. May 17, 2016 at 20:30
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1@Matsmath: Sure, you can undo what you changed in
/etc/default/locale
. Basically one line is sufficient:LANG=en_US.UTF-8
(or whatever locale you want as the default). Then, when the bug has been fixed, you can handle the rest via Language Support. May 17, 2016 at 20:36