How to change the Language & Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu
by sahab on Aug.04, 2011, under Ubuntu, ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 10.10, ubuntu 11.04, ubuntu 7.10, ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu 8.10, ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10
The following command is used to reconfigure the default language and the keyboard layout in Ubuntu.
sudo set-language-env -E – Default Language
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup – used to reconfigure the default language
For example if you need to chanage the default language to German, run the above command and choose your default language.