Questions tagged [locale]
a way of customising messages to be suitable for different languages
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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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Why does apache2 default to LANG=C instead of UTF8 or system default
The 10-year-old comment in /etc/apache2/envvars simply says "The locale used by some modules like mod_dav", but why can't mod_dav be fixed to also handle a better LANG setting for the rest of apache?
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Bangla Font issue in Terminal
I have a program that outputs Bangla in the terminal. But unfortunately, the output is not displayed properly by gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The output should look like this:
আপনাদের দোকা...
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Can't get unicode characters to display on Ubuntu Server 20.04.1
I'm running Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 (no GUI) and want to be able to see unicode characters in the terminal. Just to be clear: I'm not SSHed into it, the terminal I'm using is the one directly on the ...
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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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LC_ALL error after updating ubuntu to 18.04 (from 17.10)
After update I get this message box.
Error found when loading ‘/etc/profile’
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale no such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale no such ...
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snap cannot access locale
While creating a snap, I kept getting an error like:
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory.
In my snapcraft.yaml, I added locales to build-packages but no luck.
I ...
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Changing default locale from Terminal and got "hash collision"
I am currently translating the User Interface of meld for users in Taiwan. I launched the compiled version but the system do not display with the required locale. I checked my system settings and ...
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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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How to make Kubuntu display date and time in English?
I am using Kubuntu 18.04 and it seems that despite having my whole system being setup in English, the date and time display (like days) is sometimes displayed in French, it seems related to the ...
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Dead keys aren't working in wine
I'm trying to use MS-Office 2010 (I know... it's pretty old) with Wine and everything but my dead keys are not working perfectly.
With any other application in Ubuntu 16.04 they works well...
To ...
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How to make a new-defined alphabetic sort order in a locale work?
I'm working on a new Latin-based script for Persian. So I've used such lines in GB locale file, to modify the sort order:
First of all, I've introduced the new characters in such way:
collating-...
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Kubuntu 22.04 with Arabic hints in console
I changed my locale settings to English US in Kubuntu 22.04, but still some system hints in Arabic as shown in the next screenshot of console:
The installation language was English too. The only ...
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Where has en_SE gone in 21.10?
I had a Kubuntu system (actually many) set up with en_SE.UTF-8 because it's the only locale that has: english, metric, YYYY/MM/DD and a few other non-stupid things. It was working great.
Then this ...
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How to set first day of week to be Monday?
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and have my locale/region set to US. I want to keep my region to US but only change the first day of week to Monday.
How could I do this?
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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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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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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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Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
This error occurred when I rebooted ubuntu18.04.
Maybe it was because I accidentally deleted the native Chinese language of the system before restarting it. I can't turn on my laptop now. What ...
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Hebrew language in Ubuntu 16.04.4
I'm using 16.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64) with Xfce.
I have Hebrew folder names that are shown with invalid encoding:
How can I fix it?
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LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 Not supported
My LANG is pt_BR, when I start any of the components of LibreOffice I see messages stating that LOCALE is not supported. When trying to open files in docs, I do not see files with accented names.
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Ubuntu 16.04 - Time shown by clock widget in the task bar is incorrect
I have already manually setup some symlinks that should guarantee system time to be according to the locale I want, namely
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/localtime
ln -sf /usr/share/...
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/etc/default/locale permission denied help
When I try to change my locale I type
update-locale
and it says
/etc/default/locale can't write: permission denied
I don't know what to do.
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UTF-8 Issue, don't know where?
I am running a node.js server and the following line just isn't working.
console.log("☺☻♥ مرحبا 你好");
I opened up the file in nano and cat on my ubuntu server 14.04 (no gui, no window manager, no ...
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ibus -> preferences doesn't show
im trying to set my kubuntu to accept Japanese input, I followed this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkwgyevmSGk#t=95
I clicked ibus, But it does nothing, I cant see anything ibus on my system ...
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fixing locale settings permanently
I am getting the 'unsupported locale setting' error as referenced here (on Ubuntu 13.10).
However, following Martijn suggestion only fixes the problem temporarily. Opening a new bash reverts to the '...
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Unsupported locale prevents me from starting apps
I have the following locale settings when I type export:
declare -x LANG="es_ES.ISO-8859-1"
declare -x LANGUAGE="es:en"
declare -x LC_ADDRESS="ms_MY.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_IDENTIFICATION="ms_MY.UTF-8"
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Can not correct locale settings
I am running an Ubuntu image provided by my company, it seemed to have some strange locale settings to begin with. Firefox uses the French dictionary by default and I get warnings when doing anything ...
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Changing Ubuntu locale settings by GUI crashes the accounts-daemon
I'm usung Ubuntu 12.04 and after an automatic update it changed the system default encoding form UTF-8 to "ANSI_X3.4-1968". I realized that when my code comments in Eclipse appeared with strange ...
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Gparted Partition editor not working
I had Windows and installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows.
I want to allocate suitable disk space to Ubuntu. I installed the Gparted Parition Editor from the Software Center.
My problem is: It ...
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Make GDM3 in Ubuntu 12.10 show a list of available languages
The local computer pool is used by a large number of students that prefer to choose the language of the Ubuntu desktop. Not all want English. Unfortunately, the GDM login manager does not present a ...
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How do I install a new language and enable it from the command line?
This seems to be undocumented. The problem is that I have a headless server, which was minimally installed with one language, but must be reconfigured to a second language; I need to script this ...
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Switch chrome time inputs to 24h format, still using English language
I would like to have the 24h time input (instead of 12h AM/PM format) format for <input type="time"> HTML elements, without switching the full system language to German.
My settings ...
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How to Reinstall Keyboard in Kubuntu (Wrong Layout) for CSA keyboard (CAN/CSA Z243.200-92) aka: Canadian Multilingual
Can I download a new keyboard definition for the layout Canadian Multilingual (CSA keyboard) ?
It's not what I am used to and as one might guess it is pretty annoying.
Even if I select the same ...
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persisting locale
I want my web browser, terminal emulator, and nautilus to show in English, and I tried to set english system-wide in language support, but it didn't change except the date on the top and the gray ...
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Change location for man pages
Until Ubuntu 18.04, if you wanted to change the man pages location, you just have to execute something like this (depending on the desired language you wanted, in this case, spanish):
sudo apt install ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 set locale to Hebrew
I'm using PuTTY and I've created locale following guides, and something just not working there..
I used commands like localectl set-locale LANG=he_IL.utf8 LANGUAGE="he_IL:he"
Running test ...
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How to fix Can't find bundle for base name ncs_rest_sim, locale en_us when running devspace simulator on Ubuntu
I Am trying to install devspace simulator on ubuntu 20.10 with java version "1.8.0_271" and I get the following error when I run it:
HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /. Reason:
Can't find ...
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After update to ubuntu 20.04 problems with displaying characters
locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" ...
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locales (UTF-8) are not set as expected
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS is installed on my virtual machine. When I use PuTTY to login, I get the following output:
karsten@v38xxx:~$ who am i
karsten pts/0 Jun 26 10:14 (87.175.23.xx)
karsten@...
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Kubuntu 20.04: non-english filename characters show as question marks on usb sticks mounted through the terminal
... but show correctly if the usb stick is mounted through dolphin.
The usb stick is formatted in fat32 and has personal data files copied from a windows7 system.
Is there a way to show 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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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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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 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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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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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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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: ...