Ubuntu – Set default language to English (US) in 12.04

12.04language-support

I accidentally installed Canadian English instead of US English when I did my install. How can I set this back?

When I go to System Settings > Language Support
English and
English (Canada)
are available, but English (United States), along with all other English variants, are greyed out.

"Install/Remove Languages" below does not have the granularity lower than English, so I can't select a country. How can I install US English?

Best Answer

OK, I ended up doing this a different way.

First I googled around for the file where this setting is stored:

sudo nano /etc/default/locale

Then there were a bunch of '_CA' below that I changed to '_US' like so and everything worked.

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:en"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"

And then USA #1.

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