English (United States) for adding language is greyed.

Try3 said:

Well, if it's not installed you cannot select it.

Denis

Adding a new display language requires for some reason two separate steps, which I overlooked. I wonder why adding a new display language has to be in two steps. The first step to select a language is obviously necessary but after that what else to be done other than installing it.

churin said:

I wonder why adding a new display language has to be in two steps. The first step to select a language is obviously necessary but after that what else to be done other than installing it.

Perhaps some people add languages but do not want to alter their display language.

Perhaps you could ask for help / clarification by posting in one of that pair of tutorials.

I had to go the other way round when I found that my display language was US English instead of UK English.
I found it quite confusing.
If I ever have a language meltdown I'll start off from scratch by clean installing with a UK English ISO-InstallUSB.


All the best,
Denis

Yes, sorting out my UK/US issue was also made confusing by the existence of some facilities such as US spell-checking in browsers even though I had never installed anything.
Sad to say, I got so confused that my notes about what I had done were seen to be complete gibberish when I read them again a month later.
If I ever get a recurrence of language problems I'll probably end up just clean installing.

All the best,
Denis