Change language on your Debian system

Debian 7 - wheezy

To check which locale is currently set as default just run:

locale

or type to see a list of installed locales

locale -a

then run

dpkg-reconfigure locales

and choose your language as default

then type

export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8

export LANG=(two letter code for your language)_(two letter code for your country).UTF-8



reboot and check again your new locale

locale