Last week I was a customer and is a funny thing happened. I have started working on a Debian server cluster that manages the backup drive for the VPN, a machine rather critical since the company has offices throughout Italy and all - or almost - sooner or later must pass to that server .

The technician who was entrusted to me by the company is a good computer with a sound on server systems from Microsoft. One shortcoming: zero knowledge of English. He studied French. I wonder how we can make the computer without a very good knowledge of English. But no matter.

Since we were side by side and that I wanted to do a translation on the fly for each `man` open, I ran the command:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

and I set the system language to en_US.UTF-8.

Well, I'm still trying to explain to the technician, with whom I made friends in the meantime, how Debian handles this type of operation without the need to restart the server. But no I never will: speak another language just me and him. Take it! ;)

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