Is there a way of setting the language in a per user basis?

[manny6]

I have a friend how speaks Spanish, and i want to set up an account on my computer for her in Spanish, while keeping the root account and my user account in English.

Is there a way of setting the language in a per user basis?

I'm using Debian 9 stable.

[arzgi]

I have a friend how speaks Spanish, and i want to set up an account on my computer for her in Spanish, while keeping the root account and my user account in English.

Is there a way of setting the language in a per user basis?

I'm using Debian 9 stable.

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man locale
      ....
       The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk directory
       with  the  localedef(1) utility under the $HOME/.locale directory, then
       tests the result with the date(1) command, and then sets  the  environ‐
       ment  variables  LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profile file so that the
       custom locale will be used in the subsequent user sessions:

       $ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale
       $ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8
       $ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date
       $ echo "export LOCPATH=\$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc
       $ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc
       .....

[manny6]

Thanks for the replay.