How to reset locale settings in Debian?

Question

I am newbie to Debian, last night I regenerated locales using following command.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

I selected all from the prompted screen and it generated all locales. After restarting my PC I am seeing fonts as in the picture below. I need help resetting my locale settings.

Answer 1

I used the following command:

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

Font tuning method for screen (system default): Selected Native then for Enable subpixel rendering for screen: selected Automatic logout and login again, now fonts are normal again.

Thanks everyone here :)

Answer 2

Take a look at the contents of this file:

cat /etc/default/locale

Add a comment with your contents (would've just commented on your post but lacking the rep to do so)

Answer 3

I believe if you don't have the fonts, you can download them from these links: Ubuntu font rendering on Debian Wheezy & Sid Download Page for fontconfig-config Debian Wheezy

Method #1

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you can choose other packages such as Wheezy, Sid, Squeeze and so on, if you like here: All Debain packages for fontconfig

follow the steps:

1- Download the package.
2- open .deb file with Archive Manager
3- enter the **/etc/fonts** directory
4- open nautilus and brows to **/etc/fonts**
5- drag all the files and folders from the archive into the file browser
6- Log out and log in, and change font preferences.

The full procedure is on this link: Ubuntu font rendering on Debian Wheezy & Sid

Method #2

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you need to recompile the package again; the original one you have on your system like this:

su -c 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'

Then type: touch .fonts.conf

after that, open the config file

nano .fonts.conf

Then paste in this code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
<match target="font">
   <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
   </edit>
 </match>
<match target="pattern">
   <edit name="dpi" mode="assign">
   <double>96</double></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

for lolz, paste into .Xdefaults :

Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft*dpi: 96
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

Last, Log out and log in to see things in affect...