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OS: Linux Mint 14 Tty: tty/6

I am trying to start X using startx from tty/6. I do not have a .xinitrc in my home directory. X gets loaded but it loads everything in chinese. I am not sure where the locale is set. Can someone explain why does it happen?

$ echo $LANGUAGE 
zh_CN:en
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You are probably setting this locale somewhere in the ~/.bashrc or /etc/environment or /etc/profle or in a file in /etc/profile.d. Depending on the distribution, the way how the $LANGUAGE is set can differ.

Try this to find the file where your language is set:

grep zh_CN /etc/* /etc/profile.d/* /etc/bash/* ~/.*

if one of these files contains the setting, grep should show you

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i found the LANG AND LANGUAGE set in ~/.pam_environment. Is it necessary to have both environment variables? Also where can I get valid list of values for these environment variables. I want the value for UK English. LANGUAGE=zh_CN:en LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 – rag Feb 20 at 8:47
to be honest i don't know what ~/.pam_environment is. but i'm pretty convinced it's no problem if you change both settings of $LANGUAGE to en_US or en_UK – mauro.stettler Feb 20 at 10:12
i have removed $LANGUAGE and changed LANG to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8. this is also dependant on the locales package being installed. – rag Feb 20 at 23:31

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