Questions tagged [internationalization]
Questions about language settings, translations and other matters relating to two or more countries.
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How to change input language in login to XRDP?
I can enter my login name in RDP since it is latin. While installing Ubuntu, I set language switch to Ctrl-Shift and it works in console.
Here it is ignored.
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How do I switch to another language?
How do you switch Ubuntu to another (human) language without reinstalling it?
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How do I change keyboards from the command line?
How I change keyboard layouts from the command-line? For example, I want to switch from English to Hebrew. I'm able to do it from lightdm with the little icon in the corner of my screen.
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How can I install a complete Arabic font?
I have installed Arabic language support using the language tool, but I am still unable to get this page to render correctly:
http://www.iamcal.com/understanding-bidirectional-text/
Which fonts do I ...
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Persian standard keyboard there isn't in Ubuntu 22.04 keyboard layouts
Recently I installed the latest version of Ubuntu 22.04, in previous version I cloud easily add it.
settings > keyboard > click on + > Persian standard keyboard.
But in this version of ...
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warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale
I want to switch to French locale. So I tried the below command:
myUbundu@myUbundu-desktop:~$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR
But I am getting the warning
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change ...
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How to set up keyboard layout switching and indication in Xubuntu?
I use 3 different languages (English, Czech and Russian) every day. I'd prefer to switch (preferably globally, I don't like per-window) between them with Left+Alt+Shift.
I'd also like to see the ...
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How to separate language from time format?
I want to set a custom time format or the time format specific to my localisation but I want to keep the names of days and months in English. How can I set it to something like YYYY-MM-DD, Monday, 20:...
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How to change the first day of week on Ubuntu 22.04?
I want to use the en_US locale but I want to change the first day of week from Sunday to Monday. I have found a way to do this for older versions of Ubuntu but it seems that the configuration has ...
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Cannot open files with Chinese File names
I have a new box and English is the language with which I installed Kubuntu 20.04. On my partition I have English but can type Traditional Chinese with Fcitx. LibreOffice is in English. On the staff ...
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Spanish accents on US keyboard
I have a good-old fashioned US keyboard. Looks like English (US).
How can I get Spanish accents on Ubuntu 12.04 ?
This article says I can use RightAlt + a but the aritcle goes only to 11.04. ...
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Orca behaviour when it reads a text containing words in different language from the main one
I am a totally beginner with screen readers and accessibility tools.
I have installed Orca Screen Reader on my Kubuntu 20.04. I am Italian, so Orca by default is configured with the Italian language.
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onscreen keyboard in multiple languages
I occasionally want to type in character sets other than those on my physical keyboard and it seems like onboard should be a good solution for this. I have a few languages installed on my system, but ...
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How to enable Arabic support in GNOME terminal?
I'm trying to write Arabic in the terminal app but it does not recognize right-to-left text and does not bind the Arabic letters together as it should.
I tried this solution https://bugs.launchpad.net/...
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Keyboard Settings for ¨Dumb¨ Quotemarks (ASCII-34 and ASCII-39) for C Code
I have Ubuntu 21.10 (recently upgraded from 20.04) on an 8G RPi-4 connected to a touchscreen and a mini keyboard. Using the Budgie desktop and a USB power block as a battery it makes a very nice ...
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Mirror servers lista, correct a translation
when using Ubuntu in Occitan the country on the mirror list is not correct for the United States, it shows "France", and France is correctly translated into "França".
I couln't ...
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Internationalisation of bash scripts
I want to get the language locale so that I can call the relevant help function for the specific language. I can use locale to get the LANG or LANGUAGE variable.
But need some assistance to implement ...
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How to show monthes/week day labels in english?
How can I in kubuntu 20 to show monthes/week day labels in english, not in national ? I mean : 1) ex. console(command ls -la) 2) Date and Time wizard.
Thanks in advance!
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Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts for international keyboard, greek and unicode math?
Is there a tool to quickly create custom keyboard layouts?
For example to achieve this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/86559/1871
Producing Unicode characters in secondary layers, but based on US ...
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Where to translate sudo advice on Terminal's first run
I have been searching but I cannot find where this message is kept:
Here is the message as text:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See &...
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How do I turn on phonetic typing for Tamil?
Is phonetic typing for Tamil available in Ubuntu 12.04?
How can I install it?
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compose key for us international layout not working
After my upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 my compose key is not working as it did before anymore.
This is my input configuration:
setxkbmap -query
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: us
variant: ...
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date command appears to ignore locale settings
What I want to do is set a locale environment variable (LC_TIME, I think) to something which makes date output in a nice ISO format.
From looking at some other Stack Exchange questions and answers ...
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Where to translate menu from right click on desktop
I'm switching from Ubuntu MATE to Ubuntu raw and I've noticed that the menu when right-clicking is not translated in my locale. What component could I help translate at Launchpad?
Also the icon "...
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Cannot find Tamil phonetic and tamil99 input method in Ubuntu 20.04
I am unable to find and use tamil-99 or tamil phonetic typing even after installing tamil language support and ibus-m17n.
Installation:
$ sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk* ibus-m17n m17n-* tamil*
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Afghani Language [duplicate]
The official name of Afghan language is "DARI" but Ubuntu has listed it under "Afghani" in the input sources.
Please, Who should I contact to solve this issue...?
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English (US) - English (intl., with AltGr dead keys) not working on Ubuntu 20.04
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04.
During OS installation I selected and tested English (US) - English (intl., with AltGr dead keys), and then the combination of ALTGR + n was working as expected: I got ...
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Memu emulator error showing in the application
My memu player shows weird massages(errors) saying "unfortunately memu lucher has stopped" or "unfortunately google.service.apps.gapps has stopped." I cant open any app and the ...
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Czech Localization for LibreOffice
I am running on Ubuntu 20 04. I have LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 installed and trying to switch its user interface to Czech language.
I have installed the package libreoffice-l10n-cs and restarted LibreOffice....
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How to set up language input? [duplicate]
I'm trying to set up Kubuntu 11.10 so I can type Japanese. I've searched online but have had little luck. My installation is fresh so it'd be great if someone could walk me through it and tell me how ...
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How do I get a UK ISO keyboard layout?
How do I get a UK ISO keyboard layout? The default English (United Kingdom) keyboard layout on Ubuntu 18.04 is ANSI, and therefore my \ key keeps typing < instead. Is there any way to just ...
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Prevent system from augmenting my custom XKB configuration
Since Ubuntu 18.04 (my previous version was 16.04) I have noticed quirks in my earlier working nicely custom XKB configuration.
I set my configuration by running
xkbcomp -I$HOME/.config/xkb/ $HOME/...
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Manually Editing Locale for Caja
I am British, using en_GB under MATE desktop - but I HATE HATE HATE the renaming of Trash to 'Rubbish Bin' in my locale. I consider it patronising and pointless, given the internal naming of all the ...
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How do I get keyboard to write Hiragana instead of Katakana?
I added the Japanese Layout in Keyboard preferences, however all the layouts look like being in katakana.
I suspect that the key that is to the left of the number 1 (above Tab and under Esc) could ...
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How to use a virtual keyboard inside Libre Office Writier?
My current laptop has a standard (QWERTY) English-Hebrew keyboard that came with my Dell Latitude laptop; nothing is customized.
I need to use Thai letters in general and in a Libre Office Writer (...
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How to remove all that country-specific dictionaries (like En_AU, En_CA, de_CH, etc)?
After I've installed some language packs and spell checking dictionaries (I'd like to use with Firefox and OpenOffice) I've got tons of language variations installed. This makes very inconvenient to ...
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How to install Shan language on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm from Myanmar. At our place we use Shan Language which is related to Thai.
How do I set-up my Ubuntu 12.04 so that I can read and write in my language?
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How to set up XFCE4 XKB plugin to remember settings over reboots?
Following this answer I've installed xfce - xfce4-xkb-plugin to indicate and switch keyboard layouts in XUbuntu. But it resets all the settings (languages I use and a switch layouts hotkey) every time ...
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Meizu 5 pro to Ubuntu (Originally with Flyme)
Now I know that this question was kinda answered by the following thread
How to install Ubuntu on Meizu Pro 5 that was originally with Android?
I am very new to messing with phones in general and ...
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How do I spellcheck Arabic in Gedit?
How can I spellcheck text files that contain Arabic text? The answer in
Adding languages to gedit spellchecker recommends installing a myspell dictionary, but no such dictionary seems to exist for ...
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The terminal does not display Devanagri scripts (Hindi, Nepali, etc.) properly
The terminal is not combing Unicode characters correctly. How do I solve this?
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How can I update my languages from the terminal?
After installing Ubuntu and updating the system, the first thing I usually do is make sure that all applications use the preferred locale. To do so, I start Language Support from the Dash which ...
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How to change keyboard layout switch shortcut in console
I'm using Ubuntu 18.10 server. During installation I selected English as the system language and Russian as the main input one. It asked me to select the shortcut for toggling between the main and ...
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Python doesn't use decimal point separator in 'Region and language'
If I open the 'Region and language' dialog, I have 'Formats' set to 'Germany'. If I click that setting, the 'Numbers' preview is '123.456.789,00' (comma as a decimal separator).
But if I run python3 -...
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Use accents with Japanese keyboard layout in Kubuntu
I would like to use french accents using the Japanese keyboard layout. Dead keys would be great, but I am willing to accept key combinations too. I just would not like to switch the layout, because ...
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Writing ligatures easily
French learners like me come from countries where English(US) keyboard is commonly used. Hence I am using the US Alternative International keyboard on Ubuntu to write accented letters in French. But I ...
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Unable to type polish characters after upgrade to Ubuntu 18
After upgrading from Ubuntu 16 LTS to 18 LTS, I can't type in Polish or other international characters.
Input type is added. Even using onboard keyboard, after clicking Polish characters with Alt, ...
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Typing L with stroke with us-intl-altgr
How do I type an L with stroke or ł, which appears notably in Polish, when using the us-intl-altgr keyboard mapping for X? More generally, is there a way to find out systematically how I can produce a ...
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Monospace Chinese font
I'm trying to write some Python code to process Chinese text, but the Chinese characters in the source code mess up the monospace font. That is, all the Latin characters are monospaced, but the ...
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How to disable non-english keys, but keep their AltGr meaning
I have a non-english keyboard and it has all sorts of unusual keys for letters of my language. But I very rarely have to use them, they are rather just annoying when I accidentally press them. I ...
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