The first step is to choose your preferred language.
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.
Click the Multiple languages 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 Español in the Multiple languages screen.
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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. |
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About UTF-8 (unicode) support: Unicode is a character encoding intended to cover all existing languages. Mageia Linux uses UTF-8 by default for all languages |
Note that you're not limited to choosing a single additional language. You may choose several, or even install them all by selecting the All languages 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.
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