How to Change system Locale ?

I've just set up Lucid Ubuntu , i am totally new to linux ; So , i need to change my system locale to be Arabic beside English to manage to read text documents in a right manner ; Thanks in advance .

the arabic is pre-installed. the only problem that u can'y change the layout by keyboard shortcuts. so u must set it manual by going to: system ----->preference -----> keyboard ------> layout tab -----> option bottom ----> keys to change layout and also remove the mark in the keys to choose 3d level. . i hope i answer ur question :)

[RIGHT]السﻻم عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

بالنسبة للغة العربية يمكنك تفعيلها من system -->preference --> keyboard --> layouts tab --> add --> by country tab واختر بلدك العربي, وأو من (by language)

(Arabic) واختر (add)ثم

سوف تظهر اللغة العربية في نفس النافذة... اذهب الى layout Options --> key(s) to change layout واختر الطريقة التي تفضلها للتبديل بين اللغتين.

وبالنسبة للزر ِAlt+shift معظمنا يختاره ﻷننا معتادين عليه لكن تذكر انه يعمل في الناحية اليسرى فقط من لوحة المفاتيح

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Thanks all who replied to my topic ; but unfortunately this is not my problem ; text files انا أقدر أكتب عربى عادى بس المشكلة فى ال اللى مكتوبه بالعربى change system locale يعنى مثلا فى الويندوز كنت بعمل بغيره أخليه عربى بحيث ان لغة الويندوز كلها انجليزى بس بيقرا الفايلات العربى مظبوطه system locale المشكله انى مش قادر أوصل ازاى أغير ال فى الأوبنتو

M.3zzat said: I've just set up Lucid Ubuntu , i am totally new to linux ;

So , i need to change my system locale to be Arabic beside English to manage to read text documents in a right manner ; Thanks in advance .

You should be able to read Arabic in Ubuntu Linux. The ability to read Arabic has to do with having installed an Arabic font. Ubuntu comes by default with some Arabic font.

To make sure that Arabic works correctly for your system, you need to install the Arabic language pack (which includes additional fonts and font configuration). You do this at System → Administration → Language Support and you add Arabic.

If you want to change the menu text of programs to Arabic, you need to logout, select Arabic and re-login again.

Now, some Arabic websites may not look properly due to encoding issues. In this case, you need to provide examples.