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<p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa1"></a>The first step is to
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<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.
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<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
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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">Español</span> in the <span class="guilabel">Multiple languages</span> screen.
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<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.
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<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
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<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
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<p><a name="BId-drakxid-selectLanguage-pa7"></a>Be aware that this will then apply to all languages on your system
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<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.
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<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
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