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Languages
You will need to find your locale (see examples below). On Debian/Ubuntu, you can find a list of these in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED.
Examples: English is en and the United States is US. The locale will be en_US.UTF-8. The encoding is UTF-8, which should be okay for most people.
British English: en_GB.UTF-8
Japanese: ja_JP.UTF-8
Canadian French: fr_CA.UTF-8
Simplified Chinese: zh_CN.UTF-8
Todo after changes: You must restart crouton for changes to take effect!
sudo apt-get install locales keyboard-configuration
After, change locales, with rights admin:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
And, restart the keyboard service:
service keyboard-setup restart
Now, you set the graphic session X:
setxkbmap de # for deutsch
setxkbmap en # for english
setxkbmap fr # for french
Please, read officials documentations about locales, and Debian Keyboard Configuration, for more informations ...
Ubuntu use meta-package...
Replace {language-code} with the language code from above (ja for Japanese, fr for French, etc.)
Replace {locale} with your locale (ja_JP.UTF-8, fr_CA.UTF-8)
sudo apt-get install language-pack-{language-code}
Example: (French) sudo apt-get install language-pack-fr
sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-{language-code}
sudo apt-get install language-pack-kde-{language-code}
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-l10n-{language-code}
sudo update-locale LANG="{locale}" LANGUAGE="{language-code}:en"
Example: (Japanese) sudo update-locale LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="ja:en"
You must restart crouton for changes to take effect!
If you're on Ubuntu, there's a convenient GUI for you! Install language-selector-gnome or language-selector-kde, and run the "Language Support" application. From there, you can install support for any languages you want, and set preferences for language and regional preferences.