Liraz Siri's picture

Configuring locale in Ubuntu hardy is more difficult than it should be. First you generate the locale like this:

locale-gen ja_JP.UTF-8

You can find a list of locale codes here. Then you edit /etc/environment to replace the LANG variable.

In later versions of Ubuntu there is the localeconf package. FWIW, when the next version of Hardy comes out in April we'll release new versions of the appliances. Debian support is also planned, and configuring locale in Debian Lenny is also pretty easy:

dpkg-reconfigure locales