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+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+
+ <title>2.&nbsp;Choosing your Language</title>
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+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="drakxid-selectLanguage"></a>2.&nbsp;Choosing your Language
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa1"></a>The first step is to
+ choose your preferred language.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <div class="figure"><a name="selectLanguage-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure&nbsp;3.&nbsp;Choosing the Default
+ Language</b></p>
+ <div class="figure-contents">
+
+
+ <div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/dx-selectLanguage.png" align="middle" alt="Choosing the Default Language"></div>
+
+ </div>
+ </div><br class="figure-break">
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa2"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-it1"></a>First open the tree relative to the continent you are located in, and then choose
+ the language you speak. Your language choice will affect the installer, the documentation, and
+ the system in general.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa3"></a>Click the <span class="guilabel">Multiple languages</span> button near the botom of the list to go to the screen to select additional languages for your workstation, thereby installing
+ the
+ language-specific files for system documentation and
+ applications. For example, if Spanish friends are to use your
+ machine, select English as the default language in the first screen
+ and <span class="guilabel">Espa&ntilde;ol</span> in the <span class="guilabel">Multiple languages</span> screen.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Note">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../common/images/note.png"></td>
+ <th align="left">Note</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa4"></a>You are advised to install the language of your keyboard and the language of the country you live in as additional languages
+ if they are not the same as your preferred language.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Note">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../common/images/note.png"></td>
+ <th align="left">Note</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa5"></a>About
+ <acronym class="acronym">UTF-8</acronym> (unicode) support: Unicode is a
+ character encoding intended to cover all existing
+ languages. <span class="application">Mageia Linux</span> uses <acronym class="acronym">UTF-8</acronym> by default for all languages
+ </p>
+
+
+
+ <div class="orderedlist">
+ <ol class="orderedlist" type="1">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa6"></a>If you know UTF-8 encoding doesn't work well for your language, tick the box <span class="guilabel">Old compatibility (non-UTF) encoding</span> at the top of the <span class="guilabel">Multiple languages</span> screen
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa7"></a>Be aware that this will then apply to all languages on your system
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </div>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa4"></a>Note that
+ you're not limited to choosing a single additional language. You
+ may choose several, or even install them all by selecting the
+ <span class="guilabel">All languages</span> box. Selecting support for a
+ language means translations, fonts, spell checkers, etc. will also
+ be installed for that language. Make sure you select all languages
+ which are likely to be useful on the machine now, it may be difficult
+ to configure support for languages not chosen at
+ install time at a later date.
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
+ <div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Tip">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="../common/images/tip.png"></td>
+ <th align="left">Tip</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p><a name="drakx-pa18a"></a>To switch between the various
+ languages installed on your system, you can launch the
+ <span class="command"><strong>localedrake</strong></span> command as <code class="literal">root</code> to
+ change the language used by the entire system. Running the command
+ as a regular user will only change the language settings for that
+ particular user.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
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+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">1.&nbsp;The Mageia Installer&nbsp;</td>
+ <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td>
+ <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;3.&nbsp;License Terms of the
+ Distribution
+ </td>
+ </tr>
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+ </div>
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+</html>