If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German formats, you can fine-tune your /etc/default/locale like this:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
Make sure you have both en_US and de_DE locales installed:
sudo locale-gen en_US
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen de_DE
sudo locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8
If you needed to install a locale, make sure to do:
sudo update-locale
Now restart your system for the changes to take effect.
Known issues
You might encounter locale issues when you ssh to machines that don't have those locales set (de_DE) and some errors like this with postgresql might occur:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NUMERIC = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "de_DE.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Then you might remove/comment this line from your /etc/ssh/ssh_config:
SendEnv LANG LC_*
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-07-02 08:38)