How do I change the language of the console permanently?

Is there a way I can change the language of the console? I have seen things such as adding LANG=C in front of the commands but that is a temporary fix.

I can live with the Turkish console but when it comes to man and help commands it drives me nuts. I do not understand the Turkish terms used.

Solution 1:

Run the following command to save it in your ~/.bashrc file so that every time you open an interactive non-login terminal your locale will be set accordingly:

echo 'export LANG=C' >> ~/.bashrc

Note that the C locale uses an ASCII character set, if you want Unicode then use a locale that supports it e.g.:

echo 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' >> ~/.bashrc

To make changes available from the running session, source the ~/.bashrc file:

source ~/.bashrc