locale_dialog can do this for you for English. Go to a terminal: Ctrl-Alt-T and type:

/opt/xandros/bin/locale_dialog

Click the TOP radio button and the left-hand button for the two subsequent dialogs boxes (ie. OK). After that the system will reboot.

1. Start Eee PC
2. Press Ctrl-Alt-T to open Terminal
3. Type sudo /usr/bin/oowriter /etc/default/locale &
   (Another editor may be used to modify this file.)
4. Change line to LANG=en_US.UTF-8
5. press Ctrl-Alt-backspace or Reboot.

It is also possible to change to another language, e.g.

• Change line to LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 for French (doesn't work out of the box with these instructions)
• Change line to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 for English with UK keyboard-layout
• Change line to LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 for Italian
• Change line to LANG=de_GN.UTF-8 for German
• Change line to zh_TW.UTF-8 for Traditional Chinese
• Change line to zh_CN.UTF-8 for Sim Chinese

More information on language settings can be found in the i18n document.

Note: This changes only the language in the OS. Applications1) retain their language settings.

After changing the OS language (for example from zh_TW to en_US), to change the language of any applications that stay in the previous language rename the directory /usr/share/locale/zh_TW to something else such as /usr/share/locale/zh_TW.old.

To change the keyboard layout, open a console (ctrl+alt+t) and open the control center with

kcontrol

Go to Peripheral Devices/Keyboard Layout. Choose the approriate layout. Hit 'Apply'. To make the change stick (even in easy mode) continue in the console:

sudo kate /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager

Search for the line sudo rm /tmp/nologin and add the following line before it:

(sleep 3; /usr/bin/kxkb) &

Close kate and close the console.