On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 05:45:58PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:38:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have Swedish language settings. I would like to partly change those. I > > want Swedish keyboard settings and all the date formats, currency, thousands > > separators, decimals and so on to conform to Swedish convention. But in > > programs I want all menus, messages, error messages etc in English. Is this > > doable, if so how? > > > Have a look at the locale(7) man page. It describes macros for use by a > programmer, but each of those macros also corresponds to an environment > variable. You can accomplish what you describe by settting all the LC_* > variables (or perhaps LC_ALL) to your Swedish locale and then setting > LANG to an English language locale.
Not LC_ALL. That would override LANG. export LANG=en_US.utf8 # or en_GB or whatever you prefer export LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8 export LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8 export LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.utf8 You'll have to figure out *where* to do this, and that will depend on how you login to the system, and also on whether you run some kind of Desktop Environment that will clobber your environment settings.
