In this recipe, we will show you how to change the language settings of your CentOS 7 installation for the whole system and for single users. The need to change this is rare but can be important, for example if we accidentally chose the wrong language during installation.
To complete this recipe, you will require a working installation of the CentOS 7 operating system with root privileges, and a console-based text editor of your choice. You should have read the Navigating text files with less recipe, because some commands in this recipe will use less for printing output.
There are two categories of settings that you have to adjust if you want to change the system-wide language settings of your CentOS 7 system. We begin by changing the system locale information and then the keyboard settings:
To begin, log in as root and type the following command to show the current locale settings for the console, graphical window managers (X11 layout...