Questions tagged [locale]
a way of customising messages to be suitable for different languages
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xfce open save dialog box pathbar does not show buttons in Chinese
I am using xfce on my linux box. As the screen capture shows, the pathbar in any open save dialog box shows only directory name but not the button. That makes it hard to read. And my GUI language is ...
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start ubuntu 18.04 an error : end kernel panic -not syncing: attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b occurs by stack smashing detected
I downgraded my ubuntu 18.10 to 18.04 today. After rebooting and logining the downgraded 18.04, I met an error as follows: enter image description here. Then I run the following commands in the ...
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Create desktop shortcut with locale change at runtime
I have a wine application I need to run in Chinese locale.
It works properly from terminal with:
LC_ALL=zh_CN wine '.wine/path_to_program/program.exe'
and my desktop shortcut works with Command set ...
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how can I change the locale shown on the login screen of lubuntu
I just installed Lubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox and applied available updates/upgrades. It all works well enough but even though I've checked the locale is correct for UK english, the login screen still ...
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set system-language to english: apt showing messages in spanish
I installed ubuntu, using english as a language.
Then I added spanish, meant to be used by another user.
Now whenever I do something in apt the messages are in spanish
This is the content of my ...
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Ubuntu datetime locale on login screen
I've installed Ubuntu 19.10, language/locale/formats are set in US/en. And everything seems to work OK, except datetime language on login screen (when I turn on my laptop and see fields for user/...
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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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I got an error immediately after login into ubuntu
I don't know what went wrong but I stuck into this difficult situation
where I login into system and immediately I get this message as shown into image. I did try every possible solution on internet, ...
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I'm having a huge problem with locale and locale-gen in Ubuntu
I'm having some trouble with locale settings. I'm getting an error like this when I type locale in terminal:
$locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: ...
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special character key comes with noname instead of letter on xev
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x269, subw 0x0, time 25839746, (517,242), root:(622,350),
state 0x0, keycode 254 (keysym 0x11f, (no name)), same_screen YES,
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Russian Cryrilic Italics Displayed Incorrectly
A few characters don't appear properly when in Italic, for example:
The character that looks like a u with an accent should be й and the last alphabetic u (in bold and italics should be) и.
Any ...
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How to easily get rid of all of the unused locales?
It annoys me to have locales on my system that I will never use. Its wasted space and inefficient. Is there a way I can get rid of them permanently and have it only in USA English and Metric option?
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manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
When I ssh into an EC2 instance running Ubuntu 18.04, I get this error:
manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
I tried this but this didn't fix it:
sudo locale-gen "...
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Ubuntu shows incorrect Thai language with 'ls' command
Ubuntu shows filenames in Thai language incorrectly.
$ locale
LANG=th_TH.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="th_TH.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="th_TH.UTF-8"
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“X does not support your locale” error when running keepass2 [closed]
I am trying to run a password manager (Keepass2) that was working alright yesterday, until I started trying to tweak it to use the system-wide shortcut keys for auto-typing.
I am working on Debian 10.
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Cannot open Gnome Terminal after “LANG=en_US.UTF-8 bash”
Please help a begginer. I tried to change my terminal output language with this command I found online "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 bash" (from Finnish to English).
However after that I cannot open the Gnome ...
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Where are user locale settings stored?
I have updated locale settings from UI in
Settings -> Region and language -> Formats
in Ububntu 18.
I can't find where these settings are stored in the OS.
So far I checked
/etc/default/locale
~/....
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Ubuntu 18.04 chroot locale can't set
I am installing a Ubuntu 18.04 chroot on a Debian 8 system, using ubuntu-base-18.04.3-base-i386.tar.gz as the base (found from the Ubuntu website).
I mount the /sys and /proc directories into the ...
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locales — weird behaviour --
Thunderbird calendar shows time in US (non-24h) format.
After searching the WWW found out that it uses the locales settings.
checked locales settings and they all are on nl_BE and should thus give a ...
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german umlaute are not displayed in terminal
I have a file 'test.txt' with the following content: ä, ö, ü.
When I type
cat test.txt
�, �, �
What is wrong?
The system is running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.
I checked locales installed german support, ...
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Can't install octave forges with Ubuntu 19.04
Octave Forges fails to install octave from repositories on Ubuntu 19.04 using snap octave v5.1:
pkg install -forge symbolic
error: get_forge_pkg: could not read URL, please verify internet ...
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Why cedilla-portuguese.sh is in default /etc/porfile.d/ list?
I never used or selected Portuguese locales, either had any connection to Portugal or Brazil, so why we have these scripts running every interactive bash running?
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How to have xRDP acknowledge current user's locale?
My problem is that xRDP does not seem to recognize the ~/.pam_environment file of the user, who is being logged in.
What I did:
I have set up a fresh Ubuntu Server 18.04.02 LTS
I installed MATE as ...
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sudo locale-gen --purge restored the data on hard disk
I was not able to open terminal(using right-click) in linux machine using nautilus command via mobaxterm.
I was getting the error:
Error constructing proxy for
org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/...
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How to set console language to English in KDE?
I was experimenting with regional setting in KDE and it set UI language to Russian for me. Later I changed UI language back to English, but it still remained Russian in console.
How to change that?
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How to remove system locales
How to remove system locales, as oppose to package locales as asked in How to remove unnecessary locales?
I'm getting the following errors recently:
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No ...
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SSH session show à instead of @
I have Ubuntu VM (installed on esxi). I was trying to run a curl command over a ssh session:
curl -L https:// xyz.com/latest
After running above command my ssh session started showing as below:
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Disable locale in datetime display in terminal and logs
I use Persian loclae. In addition to displaying wrong words for the time, I prefer to display the original English words. Also in system logs. How should I do this?
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How to create a custom locale in 2019?
In Ubuntu 18.04 I would like to create a new (custom) locale. Is this possible? There seem to be many older entries on how to do this but nothing current (none of the 'old' ways are working for me).
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Why does `file -i` determines file encoding as ASCII, however it is UTF-8 actually in git repository
There are two cases, which i confused about:
If newly created file contains only latin symbols, then file -i will show us-ascii.
If newly created file contains only latin and cyrillic symbols, then ...
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What variables control what format the time and date are in in Firefox and what else does that affect?
My main question is:
What (env) variables control what format the time and date are in in Firefox and what else does that affect (UI, spell-check)?
I tried changing locale settings, packages, ...
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Sudden swedish keyboard problem
I have a problem with my keyboard layout in any terminal.
Swedish keys/characters are suddenly not working anymore in any terminal.
Works fine in any gui application but not in any terminal.
But all ...
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Perl warning locale while I call psql
I try to run postgresql on my Ubuntu server
myname@myserver:/home$ sudo -i -u postgres
postgres@myserver:~$ psql
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale ...
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Unable to display a file encoded in ISO-8859-9 to the terminal
In short: How can I display a file to the terminal that is not encoded in UTF-8?
Currently, I have a test file encoded in ISO-8859-9 and containing the following 12 characters:
ğüşıöçĞÜŞİÖÇ
The hex ...
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How to make locale “de_DE.CP1252” available for “dpkg-reconfigure locales”?
Im using UB 16.04 LTS Server and today a new version of the locales-package has been released and installed:
Start-Date: 2019-02-21 09:44:05
Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--...
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/etc/locale.gen: No such file or directory, how can I add a new locale the right way [duplicate]
The file /etc/locale.gen does not exist on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, how can I add a new locale the right way ?
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Cant generate locale float exception
I am getting the error
en_US.ISO-8859-1.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 177: 8091 Floating point exception(core dumped) localedef $no_archive -i $input -c -f $charset $locale_alias
when I run sudo ...
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Permission denied in my O.S /etc/default/locale not configured
I want help for my Ubuntu issue.
/ etc/default/locale: /etc/default/locale:Permission denied.
Why?
As root I enter sh -x /usr/sbin/update-info-dir and get this:
+INFODIR=/usr/share/info
+set -e/
+...
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execute sh file with Russian or Chines Chars - Saved as UTF-8 or Unicode
I have a file which has some russian characters in it:
#!/bin/sh
sed -i "s/\bVAR1\b/Привет, как ты/g" file1.txt
When I save this file I had to save this as UTF-8 or Unicode format as I have some ...
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Sorting files and folders with underscore at the beginning
I use an underscore at the beginning of file and folder names to mark them as something "special". But this sorting doesn't work for the most programs under Linux. I tried LC_COLLATE=C ls and other ...
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The installation or removal of a software package failed. langauge setting problem
I am very new to Ubuntu and i installed Ubuntu today. And when i tried to install chromium (or anything), i am getting this error:
installArchives() failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl:...
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Change first day of the week does not work
I tried to follow the instructions on this post, but it did not work for me, what I'm doing wrong?
Here's my local file in /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
Been having a problem for some time now, and scouring the internet for solutions they always refer back to what the user was doing when the problem occurred. For me, the same problem occurred during ...
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How to set LANGUAGE in locale permanently
After running into this bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/236
I can't get my locale fixed. It is impossible to fix it with gnome-control-center, and "export LANGUAGE=gd:...
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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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Why temp txt files are created in ANSI?
I have a big log file and i need to cut a part of it and paste it in the end of the same file...
so i created a script that looks for the chunks of code i need (sed) create a temp file ,paste it , ...
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Character encoding/UTF-8 problem with mosh
Always, when I install mosh on a raspberry pi and try to connect through my computer, I get the following error:
lz@blade:~$ mosh -ssh="ssh -p 2323" pi@192.168.0.3
pi@192.168.0.3's password:
The ...
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How to add new locale?
How to add completely new locale which doesn't exist yet. I can create a locale file. But it's possible to upload it (git) for have it in future releases out of the box??
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How to install locale only if that is not exist yet
I want to set a locale, but it failed.
$ sudo update-locale LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
To use the locale I installed the locale by locale-...
