Debian :: How To Add Languages
May 5, 2011
I installed "squeeze" in English. I would like to add, at minimum, another language.I read through the various Debian manuals, but could find no reference to adding a language.I have googled for an answer for over one and a half hours. There were numerous inputs, but none, that I could find, gave me the answer.I searched for an answer in this forum in "Beginners' and in "General".All kinds of answers here but again, I came away without knowing how to add a language.I am coming off Ubuntu, which contained a simple method to add a language, so I have been spoiled pretty badly, I think.
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Sep 27, 2015
I have Debian 8 installed, using:
* gdm3 as the default display manager (set up in "/etc/X11/default-display-manager");
* LXDE as the default desktop environment.
I did "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and I selected three languages: "en_US.UTF-8", "it_IT.UTF-8", "sv_SE.UTF-8" (the predefined one is "it_IT.UTF-8").Now I wish to create two more users each with a different language (both for X and console applications).I did a lot of googling without success; I tried modifying ~/.profile or ~/.dmrc (adding "export LANG=...") but they didn't work. I was able to change only the system-wide language, not the one of a single user.I got the conclusion that It's not possible to have multiple users each with a different language. Is it true?
I made another try.In another installation (Debian 8, with GNOME and LXDE) I created two users:antonio, ida.The former has only one hidden file in its home-dir: ".bashrc" with "LANG=it_IT.UTF-8" as the last line (no "export $LANG" added).The latter ("ida") has only two hidden files in its home-dir:
1. ".bashrc" clean, with no "LANG=it_IT.UTF-8" line
2. ".dmrc" containing two lines:
Language=sv_SE.utf8.I put "/usr/sbin/gdm3" in "/etc/X11/default-display-manager".After reboot both users are OK: each of them displays its own language: antonio has all menus and programs in italian ida has all menus and programs in swedish.
I was able to create 4 users with 4 languages (SE, IT, FR, ES). Then I deleted all directory and files (including "~/.bashrc" and "~/.dmrc") of one user, rebooted the PC, and NOTHING changed! So, where is stored the user's language?Not in his home; there is a list elsewere?
0. Use "lightdm" (not "gdm3") as the display manager (see "/etc/X11/default-display-manager")
To install it: su -c "apt-get install lightdm"
1. su -c "dpkg-reconfigure locales"
(select the desired locales: en_US.UTF-8, it_IT.UTF-8, sv_SE.UTF-8, etc; set "default locale for the system environment=None")
2. su -c "adduser emil" ("emil" is the name of a swedish user)
3. Logout
4. Select "Swedish" as default language (see at the top-right corner of the screen)
5. Write user name (emil) and password to login
6. After login, language is english (but file "~/.dmrc" is created with the correct language).
7. Reboot PC.
8. After reboot, login again as "emil": now language is Swedish
Now you can change the display manager to gdm3 if you prefer.To change applications language: su -c "apt-get install task-swedish task-swedish-desktop"
I found the file containing the user's language: it's the same containing the link to its icon:/var/lib/AccountsService/users/UserName.(needs "apt-get install accountsservice"). Editing that file is much simpler as I described earlier
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Dec 10, 2010
I have worked with it for some weeks when I installed it over the summer on my PowerPC. I am now trying to decide whether Debian (vs. Ubuntu) is the right OS for my brand new Toshiba Intel Core i3 with 3 GB of RAM.
1. Flash -- it is true that Debian doesn't support flash on the web? It certianly did not support flash on my PowerPC. I would appreciate if someone can give me a straight answer on this.
2. Languages -- can I simultaneously work with two or three different languages on Debian? I frequently have to type in several languages (e.g., English, French, Persian, Turkish). I am writing a dissertation, so this is very important to me.
3. Finally where can I read a little about comparison between Debian and Ubuntu? My understanding is that Debian is faster than Ubuntu and generally better. Ubuntu is after all based on Debian which means that it's secondary in stability, features, speed, etc. to Debian. Is this generalization correct? Or am I completely off the wall?
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Jul 28, 2010
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At the K-Menu, if I go to "Settings" -> "SCIM Imput Method Setup" it doesn't work any more. No window opens. At first, when I was starting to try to make it work, I could open this setup window and the "sa-translit.mim" file was there under the "Other" category (but it didn't really work, I don't know why). Now this setup doesn't run anymore, and at the "Configure" window for Skim I have only "English/European" and "Raw Code" at "Global Setup"-> "Other".But I have many things at /usr/share/m17n/ which should be showing here, I guess.
My /etc/scim/global
SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_GB.utf8
/DefaultPanelProgram = /usr/bin/scim-panel-kde
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Oct 19, 2010
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Aug 13, 2010
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Jan 26, 2010
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Jul 17, 2010
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Where is the font setting for other languages stored? It would be nice if I can set default fonts for Korean language manually.
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Oct 15, 2010
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Oct 21, 2010
First I give a short description what we tried, then I put our questions. Problem: How to get to run the languages using a live system without a hard disc? We use Kubuntu live 10.04, because it is said to support many languages. What we did:
First we got a burner programm and the isoimages 10.04 for CD and DVD on a hard disc of a windows system and burnt a CD and a DVD. Then we tried both CD and DVD to set in the KDE different system languages and keyboard layout languages and to write languages. In both cases we got a message that the languages are not completely in the isoimage and we started the download of the missing packages. The CD version interrupted the download with an error message. It does not work. We continued with the DVD and could successfully complete the doemload. We could write different languges, but not Korean, Japanese and Chinese. We could change the system language to Korean, but the setting of the keyboard layout didn't give any Hangul/ Korean Characters, only Latin. We tried many things and ask somebody knowing quite well without any success. We tried to toggle/change/switch between Eenglish and Korean using right alt key and tab key, but a friend told us, that an input into a Korean web site typing on the keyboard as it would be a Korean keyboard, was accepted by the web site as the correct Korean input, but the letters that appeared on the screen as the echo of what was typed on the keyboard, was still Latin/English.Therefore we think it is not a problem how to switch between English and Korean. We are stuck with the Korean and didn't try everything for the Japanese and Chinese, we got some Kana but no Chinese characters. But wenn we tried to select a fifth languge keyboard layout, we got a limit and had to remove another one. That is very disappointing!
1) How to get an Korean keyboard echo, that means that the characters which are typed on the keyboard, appear on the screen as Korean characters?
2) How to increase the limit of four selected keyboard layouts.In Windows we can select more than a dozen. Why it is not possible to select any number of keyboardlayouts?
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Jun 21, 2011
let's say I've got one .avi video with a film with its original audio language (e.g. english) and another one .avi video with the same film but with a second audio language (e.g. re-dubbed in italian). Is it possible to get only one .avi video with the film and the two audio languages selectable?
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