While installing RHEL 4, usually we install default lanaguage as English. If you want to change to other locale its very simple in RHEL 4, you just need to change only one file with proper local.
Default configuration would be :
[root@rhel4-device ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
[root@rhel4-device ~]#
If you want to change the locale to french, you need to change the LANG and remove the rest.
[root@rhel4-device ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
[root@rhel4-device ~]#reboot
Below are the list of LANG maps
| Bulgarian | bg_BG.UTF-8 | bg | Europe/Sofia |
| -Catalan | ca_ES.UTF-8 | es | Europe/Madrid |
| Chinese(Simplified) | zh_CN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Shanghai |
| -Chinese(Traditional) | zh_TW.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Taipei |
| -Croatian | hr_HR.UTF-8 | croat | Europe/Zagreb |
| -Czech | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | cz-lat2 | Europe/Prague |
| Danish | da_DK.UTF-8 | dk | Europe/Copenhagen |
| Dutch | nl_NL.UTF-8 | nl | Europe/Amsterdam |
| English | en_US.UTF-8 | us | America/New_York |
| Estonian | et_EE.UTF-8 | et | Europe/Tallinn |
| -Finnish | fi_FI.UTF-8 | fi | Europe/Helsinki |
| French | fr_FR.UTF-8 | fr-latin1 | Europe/Paris |
| German | de_DE.UTF-8 | de-latin1-nodeadkeys | Europe/Berlin |
| Greek | el_GR.UTF-8 | gr | Europe/Athens |
| -Gujarati | gu_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| -Hindi | hi_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| Hungarian | hu_HU.UTF-8 | hu | Europe/Budapest |
| -Icelandic | is_IS.UTF-8 | is-latin1 | Atlantic/Reykjavik |
| Indonesian | id_ID.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Jakarta |
| Italian | it_IT.UTF-8 | it | Europe/Rome |
| Japanese | ja_JP.UTF-8 | jp106 | Asia/Tokyo |
| -Kannada | kn_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| -Korean | ko_KR.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Seoul |
| -Macedonian | mk_MK.UTF-8 | mk | Europe/Skopje |
| -Malay | ms_MY.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Kuala_Lumpur |
| -Malayalam | ml_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| -Marathi | mr_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| Norwegian | nb_NO.UTF-8 | no | Europe/Oslo |
| -Northern | latarcyrheb-sun16 | nso_ZA.UTF-8 | us |
| -Oriya | or_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| Polish | pl_PL.UTF-8 | pl2 | Europe/Warsaw |
| Portuguese | pt_PT.UTF-8 | pt-latin1 | Europe/Lisbon |
| Portuguese(Brazilian) | pt_BR.UTF-8 | br-abnt2 | America/Sao_Paulo |
| -Punjabi | pa_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| Russian | ru_RU.UTF-8 | ru | Europe/Moscow |
| -Serbian | sr_CS.UTF-8 | sr-cy | Europe/Belgrade |
| -Serbian(Latin) | sr_CS.UTF-8@Latn | sr-cy | Europe/Belgrade |
| -Sinhala | si_LK.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Colombo |
| -Slovak | sk_SK.UTF-8 | sk-qwerty | Europe/Bratislava |
| Slovenian | sl_SI.UTF-8 | slovene | Europe/Ljubljana |
| Spanish | es_ES.UTF-8 | es | Europe/Madrid |
| Swedish | sv_SE.UTF-8 | sv-latin1 | Europe/Stockholm |
| -Tamil | ta_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| -Telugu | te_IN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Calcutta |
| Turkish | tr_TR.UTF-8 | trq | Europe/Istanbul |
| -Ukrainian | uk_UA.UTF-8 | ua-utf | Europe/Kiev |
| -Vietnamese | vi_VN.UTF-8 | us | Asia/Saigon |
| -Welsh | cy_GB.UTF-8 | uk | Europe/London |
| -Zulu | zu_ZA.UTF-8 | us | Africa/Johannesburg |
