Questions tagged [locale]
a way of customising messages to be suitable for different languages
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How do I fix my locale issue?
I am getting this message every time I do something like starting or stopping a service.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
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How do I add locale to ubuntu server?
I currently have those locales:
locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
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Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
I have the exact question as this but there's no solution. I tried but it doesn't work
How do I fix my locale issue?
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
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How to set Monday as the first day of the week in GNOME 2 Calendar applet?
What is the recommended way to change the first day of the week to Monday (instead of Sunday, as in the screenshot below)?
I couldn't find anything related in Clock Preferences, nor in System -> ...
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Switch command output language from native language to english
How can I switch the command output language from my native language to English, so I can post my Ask Ubuntu question with English command output (error messages)?
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Locale variables have no effect in remote shell (perl: warning: Setting locale failed.)
I have a fresh ubuntu 12.04 installation. When i connect to my remote server i got errors like this:
~$ ssh example.com sudo aptitude upgrade
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/...
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How to change Date/Time format to English?
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 and set my local time/date and its working, the only thing that's bugging me is that I cannot change it to English. I would like to do this because it is hard to read and ...
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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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apt-get warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
I get this error each time I update the system using apt-get. What does this error mean? Any ideas on how to correct it?
(I am running Ubuntu 11.10)
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How do I change the default locale in Ubuntu Server?
I have a remote server which I installed and have been trying to unsuccessfully change the locale to french for a few hours. Below are the contents of my locale files:
/etc/default/locale:
LANG="...
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How to remove unnecessary locales?
I noticed I have several unneeded locales installed, for example, firefox-locale-. I only need one locale.
How to remove all the rest?
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'unsupported locale setting' fault by command-not-found
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 by keeping the home folders from Linux Mint 13 distribution. The system installed fine, but at the beginning everything was in Chinese (even the text in the Terminal)....
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`Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. ` when starting apps from the commandline
I didn't get an answer but I wasn't doing anything and this is an interesting topic. In Ubuntu 12.04, when opening a file in gedit or if I am working on the command line in dpkg, I get returned the ...
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Locale settings are not right. How can I reset them?
I've got a locale problem.
The collating sequence in nautilus and other programs has changed.
I get locale errors appearing in the terminal when I launch a GUI app..
Gtk-WARNING **: Locale ...
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Where can I find the full list of Compose combinations for my locale?
After enabling my Compose key, I want to find the list of all the key combinations I can use to create special characters. Where is the full list that my system is using when parsing the keys typed ...
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setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8) [closed]
When I press tab for autocompletion I get this error:
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8)
I've tried running this:
locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure ...
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How to set all locale settings in Ubuntu
A remote installed application has some encoding problems and on my local machine it is running fine.
What is the best way to "copy" my locales to the remote machine?
The locales on my personal ...
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How to solve LOCALE problem [duplicate]
I am facing a problem as asked in this question, I have tried the proposed solution but facing the same issue
When I run locale,
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or ...
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How to configure locales to Unicode in a Docker Ubuntu 14.04 container?
I installed a Ubuntu Trusty container using Docker, and when I connect to it, I can see that the locale is set to the bare minimum:
sudo docker run -i -t <id> /bin/bash
root@<id>:/# ...
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How can I customize a system locale?
At System → Administration → Language support → Text. I can only choose standard locales, but I would like to fine-tune. For example in Windows I could customise things like time and date format, ...
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Monday as first day in GNOME Shell (instead of Sunday)
I've been dealing with different regional settings (US, Canada and other locations in English, as well as other countries and languages), but I cannot get GNOME Shell Calendar to begin with Monday, ...
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Unable to unzip file
trying to unzip a file so im trying the following command
Sorry im really quite new to linux
btw this is Ubuntu server latest release.
user@serverubuntu:~/minecraft/server$ ls
rtk.zip
user@...
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How can I uninstall a locale via command-line?
I have 5 unused locales on my system. How can I remove them via command line? I have use localepurge but it didn't work.
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How do I list folders with underscores first?
So as pretty much everyone, before using Ubuntu I used a Windows machine, and one of the things I got used to in Windows was to use the underscore as the first character of a folder name as some sort ...
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Is it possible to switch Ubuntu back to base-2?
Beginning with (Lucid) 10.10, Ubuntu began using base-10 to represent storage sizes. For me, working with Windows all day and then going to work on my Ubuntu notebook, it is very irritating to have to ...
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Temporarily change language for terminal messages/warnings/errors
Messages in my terminal are displayed using Russian language by default, which is my native one.
For just a moment I want them to be in English (eg. to paste in forums), then switch back to the ...
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How to automate 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' with one command?
In the console to input dpkg-reconfigure locales,a gui jump out ,i select en_HK.UTF-8 as my target ,click enter.
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_HK.UTF-8......
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How to set locale?
After a clean Ubuntu Server install, I get the following error when running 'perl'.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset)...
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How to change Thunderbird's display time to 24h format?
Currently Thunderbird displays time in AM/PM mode.
How can I change it to 24h mode?
UPDATE 1:
$ locale |grep LC_TIME
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
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What is the correct way to fix an assertion in loadlocale.c?
I have recently updated Ubuntu to 18.04. After this, issuing the command ld constantly failed with the following assertion:
loadlocale.c:129: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (...
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How to change/fix system's locale when you setup in a language not official in your country?
How do I set up a global locale for the computer?
I have recently installed Kubuntu 14.04LTS in english but since I am in Spain, I chose Spain as a country and then changed locale options so that I ...
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How to change user's language (locale) back to English? [duplicate]
I made the mistake of trying out some settings through Administration -> Language Support. Now my user account has LANG set to fi_FI.utf8, even though I want to use en_US.utf8. (This is kind-of a ...
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Why is "LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean" etc recommended?
I came across this wiki page: Package Manager Troubleshooting Procedure.
In it, there were commands such as:
LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean
LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean
LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install
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How to change language only for terminal
I'm using Arabic as the default language but there are some issues when displaying it in terminal. So I want to change the language only in terminal to English, how can I do that ?
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How to create a new system locale
So I want to create a sort of international US English locale with Metric/SI measurement, A4 paper size, ISO date format, etc.
From what I understand, locales are defined in /usr/share/i18n/locales. ...
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how to fix locale error
I just did a fresh install of ubuntu using debootstrap. When I do sudo aptitude upgrade, I get this error message:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale ...
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What does C in LC_ALL=C mean?
I know very well that to override locale settings we can use LC_ALL prepended to the command one wants to run. I also know C uses default locale of a system. But what does C stand for ?
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what are duty of locale and locale-gen commands?
I know in order to understand how commands work, we should use man page. But for command locale and locale-gen. I did not got the exact meaning and their duty. I need some more description about ...
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Change decimal mark in calculator
In Germany we use , as decimal mark instead of .. Since I installed my Ubuntu in English, the Ubuntu default calculator (gcalctool) uses the . and I can't use the , on my German numpad.
I already set ...
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Where is the LANGUAGE environment variable set?
In what configuration file is the LANGUAGE environment variable set? (Or how can I change it by other means?)
Background: I was playing around with language settings in kubuntu and installed Russian ...
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Gnome-classic language turned into Chinese, how do I change it back to English? [duplicate]
My newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 gnome-classic just turned into chinese locale after reboot, how do I change it back to English?
I can't find any language menus, and the ones I opened are, well, in ...
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How to change a keyboard layout to Dvorak that assumes that the keyboard layout is QWERTY?
I use Dvorak as my primary keyboard layout. For writing in my native language(Bengali), I'd like to use the Probhat layout. But Probhat assumes that you are using a QWERTY layout. How do I make it ...
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How to set LC_NUMERIC to English permanently?
I need to change LC_NUMERIC to English (I have Ubuntu in Spanish) because of the dots and the commas, but if I use LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" when I exit the terminal and I open it again, LC_NUMERICis ...
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What are those 'x xx' in 'ls -l' command
When performing ls -l I encountered a column I don't recognize.
drwxrwxr-x 7 user user 4096 × ×× 29 13:54 .eclipse
drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 × ×× 30 09:30 workspace
drwxrwxr-x 3 user ...
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How to display characters in (virtualbox) TTY?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox, but can't get Chinese chars to display correctly. Here's what chars that should be Chinese look like:
I've done everything I could, including:
sudo apt-get -y ...
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Some menus are in Chinese/Japanese!
Yesterday I shutdown my computer and today when I powered it on and logged in to 12.04, certain strings are in Japanese/Chinese (I don't know how to differentiate between the two). The strings are:
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locale-gen generates not selected locales
I found, that on my home server, running Ubuntu Server 18.04, I've selected quite a few locales, I actually don't need. I only want en_US.UTF-8 and de_DE.UTF-8, since the whole system is configured to ...
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How to set LC_TIME variable to en_DK while keeping en_US the system default for other variables?
I have the system default set to en_US.UTF-8. But (among other nonsensical things) this makes Sunday (a weekend day) the first day of the week in calendars.
I want to use the LC_TIME variable from ...
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Cannot permanently change locale on 16.04 server
I have setup a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server, but when I attempt to permanently change the locale settings, it fails and reverts back to the POSIX locale.
Typing locale yields the following:
LANG=
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How to fix "en_DE.UTF-8" (locales) warnings? [duplicate]
On my system I am getting errors(?) like this:
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_DE.UTF-8)
or
weemonger@awesomeLinuxSystem:~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
perl: warning: ...
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