Questions tagged [locale]
A locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface.
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How to determine which Compose file is in use?
My locale is set to "en_NZ.UTF-8". There is no directory by that name listed by ls "$(nix eval -f '<nixpkgs>' --raw xorg.libX11)/share/X11/locale/", and X applications don't ...
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How to get the current value of LC_CTYPE etc. in Bash?
Basically, how to achieve this in Bash? Parsing the output of locale - declare "$(locale | grep ^LC_CTYPE | tr --delete '"')" - seems yucky, as it involves four separate commands. ...
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How to temporarily change locale for a gui-command?
If I try this suggestion with a gui-command like sudo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 partitionmanager, it's ends up with some confusing hints I can't get.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/...
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Ubuntu - PostegreSQL displays errors in foreign language even after changing all locales to en_US and reinstalling it
I inherited a Ubuntu desktop from another employee and installed PostgreSQL with the help of the official guide.
abc@lenovo:~$ sudo apt install postgresql-15
I had not known that I had to setup an ...
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Not completely switching language in Midnight Commander
spent a lot of time on this.
All menu bars and control panel at the bottom are not translated.
What I did:
set the locale globally to the desired language, even tried LC_ALL
reinstalled mc and mc-...
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Cannot type diacriticis with my keyboard
Polish diacritics such as ą or ć (created with RAlt+[latin letter] combination on a pl keymap) cannot be typed in ArchLinux. Based on the locale wiki page, I verified that:
I generated neccessary ...
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changing datetime format Ubuntu 22 [duplicate]
Looking for a solution for changing my machine datetime format to be DD/MM/YEAR hh:mm:ss.
Currently ,Linux default is MM/DD/YEAR hh:mm:ss
This is a GCP machine , running ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS .
Thanks !
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How can I format the date and time in accordance with ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 using systemd?
How can I configure the environment of a systemd based Linux system to display the date system-wide in the format yyyy-mm-dd?
This date format adheres to the specifications defined ISO 8601 and RFC ...
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Difficulty formatting number from DotNet program according to user's locale
I have been provided with a server to host my DotNet 7 application, but am having a problem display numbers formatted according to my user's locale.
The OS is:
$ cat os-release
NAME="Red Hat ...
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Replace $'\374', $'\344' and more with appropriate umlauts
after 2 days of research, I must ask the pros over here.
I had set up a NFS-share on my first Debian server at home. I copied over a few files from a windows 11 machine and now all the umlauts are ...
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Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) glyphs in xterm
I'm trying to display Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) glyphs in xterm. Those glyphs are in the U+010000..U+01FFFF range (https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.01/...
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Timestamp format different in date and ls -- locale problem?
In ls -l, file timestamps are shown as May 12 18:19 in 24-hour format.
date shows Fri May 12 06:26:44 PM UTC 2023 in 12-hour format.
Is that how it is supposed to be? Or do I have my locale setup ...
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Setting locale into application scope
I want my default date format to be iso8601 but I want my desktop panel clock to use a 12-hour display.
For this preference, the MATE panel clock applet wants a session language that includes a 12-...
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Get bitbake to use a different locale
I'm running through the Yocto Quick Build tutorial, and I've got to the command
bitbake core-image-sato
This is producing the error
Your system need to support the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
Can I change ...
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How to set locale in Nix shell on Ubuntu?
To demonstrate locale support in Ubuntu:
vagrant init ubuntu/jammy64
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get -y install hello language-pack-nb
LC_MESSAGES=nb_NO.UTF-8 hello
This prints the expected, ...
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condensing locale requests on every program load
I ran strace on a number of programs (used syntax strace -fe trace=open --insert program here-- ) and every time I execute a program that automatically forks other processes, I notice lines similar to ...
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How to enable all locales (character encodings) on Debian 11 (over SSH, in Bash)?
I am unsure if I should not better ask:
How to display Windows UTF-16 encoding in Linux?
Since I just found out that Windows uses UTF-16LE to be exact:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/66072117/1997354
I ...
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Ubuntu locale setting is invalid: No such file or directory
I've tried setting my locales in ubuntu 20 (I did it successfully in the last x years) unfortunatelly now I can't due something missing:
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No ...
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locale of .utf8 or .UTF-8?
Of the same Debian 11 bullseye, I get different locale for C: .utf8 and .UTF-8:
My machine:
$ locale -a
C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
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How to combine settings from multiple locales in Linux?
When I installed Linux I set my locale to en_US.UTF-8. However I want to override some but not all of the settings in that locale. Specifically, I would like the Measurement to be Metric instead of ...
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How do I change the language of the man pages on Debian, while keeping the default language as english
I've tried changing the man pages on debian from English to Italian but all I have tried hasn't worked yet.
First of all, I installed the manpages in Italian with apt install manpages-it.
I then ...
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apt-get autoremove is messing up locale stuff after having installed the gdal-bin package from debian testing main
I am trying to update the gdal-bin package from Debian unstable in the following Dockerfile:
FROM postgis/postgis:15-master
RUN echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main' >> /etc/apt/...
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"bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale" - misleading? What does it mean?
I want to understand how locales work. In particular I've read "-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)" and https://askubuntu.com/questions/114759/warning-...
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"cannot set lc_ctype to default locale" is gone from `apt-get` output w/out change of `locale` output (due to `update-locale`), why?
When I run apt-get near the end of output can be:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "yy_YY",
LC_ALL = "&...
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How to fix 'warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)' on arch
I am on arch for Wsl and was having trouble opening exe applications(such as firefox) from wsl2 terminal. By running locale -a I found that I didn't have en_US.UTF-8 or any other locale and only had C....
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Less in custom distro ignores all keyboard input
In the custom distro I'm running on an embedded system the tool 'less' is broken. It ignores all keyboard input and just echoes it to the screen. To quit I have to use ctrl-z and kill %1.
I've used ...
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Locale settings for RHEL 7/8
In RHEL7/8 I know we control the locale setting using localctl command and which updates the /etc/locale.conf file.
Ex :
# localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.utf8
# localectl set-keymap jp106
# ...
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Debian server only accept LC_* variables, not LANG, via SSH
My local /etc/ssh/ssh_config has
SendEnv LANG LC_*
The server-side /etc/ssh/ssh_config has
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Nevertheless, when I SSH to my Debian server, I noticed that $LC_* family is passed to ...
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What value for LANG should I use for "sort -u“ correctly handle Chinese characters?
The context
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Issue no. 1
Issue no. 2
Issue no. 3
The question
The context
Today, I wanted to keep the unique lines in a file containing Chinese characters. I decided to use the sort ...
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How to get any language alphabet?
Are there any utilities that can give me the alphabet of a specific language/locale (when the term "alphabet" makes sense)? Something like typing:
localeinfo 'de_DE.UTF-8' | grep 'alphabet'
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What is "modifier" in locale name?
The arch wiki page says:
Locale names are typically of the form language[_territory][.codeset][@modifier]
Unfortunately it does not says what is "modifier".
What is that "modifier&...
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Reverse Eastern Arabic numbers at the end of each line
I have a file with 10,000 lines, and at the end of each line, there is a number, like:
asdf ggg ١
gghh rtt ٣٢٥
tyyu bnnn jigff ٢٧
Arrange the digits of all numbers in reverse order. The right order ...
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How to set character encoding for OpenBSD tty session?
On OpenBSD, in order to appropriately see language specific characters in X sessions all I need to do is set LC_CTYPE to one of the values listed using locale -a. I do this by adding export LC_CTYPE=...
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is there any way query LC_CTYPE locale character class expressions?
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05
9.3.5 RE Bracket Expression section 6 quote:
The following character class expressions shall be supported in all
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How to generate C.UTF-8 locale on CentOS6
Failing to generate C.UTF-8 locale on CentOS6 :
# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or ...
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Change the default language in Open Suse Tumbleweed
I installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed instead of Debian, with which I have a 25 years familiarity, on my new PC.
Now, I have problems with UTF-8, e.g., when I cat some_file containing UTF-8 encoded Unicode ...
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Why might `date` be showing 12h format?
I've always seen 24h time shown in the date output. But for some reason, my Debian-based machine is now showing 12h time format:
$ date
Fri 10 Jun 2022 06:16:47 PM IDT
$ LC_TIME=en_IL.UTF-8 date
Fri ...
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Custom locale does not apply date format in at least one application
Potentially this is not an OS problem, but a problem with the specific application (LibreOffice Calc).
I have created and compiled a custom locale:
$ set |grep LANG=
LANG=en_XX.UTF-8
$ cat /usr/share/...
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Switching keyboard layouts
END GOAL
I use Arch Linux with bspwm as my window manager and sxhkd as a hotkey daemon. I want to map a certain key combination in my sxhkdrc so that it shuffles through different keyboard layouts. ...
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Language icon is missing from the Cinnamon settings! (Debian 11 installed with Cinnamon)
Working in a multicultural environment, I recently needed to switch the language displayed in my computer GUI (Debian 11 installed with Cinnamon). And I did not manage to do it easily!
I have been ...
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Characters do not display properly in terminal (st)
When typing German umlauts (ä,ö,ü) into the terminal (I am using st on Arch Linux, $XTERM is st-256color), it displays only <ffffffff>. Locale seems to be set properly.
Output of locale is
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Locales were not being generated by dpkg-reconfigure locales
According to this problem that I've encountered today:
Locale not setting on Debian
I have solved my problem by running sudo apt-get install locales-all.
But one question - what is sudo dpkg-...
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Locale not setting on Debian
I've been having troubles with locales recently. I've been having a problem with them since a long time ago, but didn't bother to fix (dumb me, maybe back then I was closer to solving this problem). ...
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Cannot open files with Umlaut with Libreoffice on Debian
I have set up a new system with a backported debian 11 and KDE Plasma 5 and wanted to continue working on my files. Some of them are from shared project containing Umlaute (ö, ü, ä) which I cannot ...
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PERMANENTLY change the output format of the 'date' command in my Kali Linux
So I have 2 different Linux installations. One of them is Ubuntu and the second one is Kali.
When I run date command with no options/arguments on my Ubuntu install I get:
michal@ubuntu:~$ date
Thu 24 ...
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Missing Oracle Linux (red hat family) Locales
I was logging on to a dev oracle linux 7 system and noticed these warnings when logging in:
Last login: Thu Mar 24 15:23:29 2022 from x.x.x.x
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (...
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How to update a locale and timezone on a static image that isn't running
I am building an Ubuntu static image (for flashing to a USB) where I want to preset the timezone and locale in that image so that it is already set when the image boots. It appears the only way to ...
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Why does mkdir messes up special characters (german umlauts)?
I have a system which is set up with Debian. Running the command
mkdir xx_ü
on this system, creates a directory called 'xx_'$'\303\274'. Running the same command on a system that is set up with ...
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How to find a locale name for a given character encoding?
The man page for setlocale seems to say that the language code and the character encoding name are sufficient to set the appropriate locale:
A locale name is typically of the form language[_territory]...
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Origin of date command default US format
date seems to have a very odd default format in the US locale: Thu Jul 9 17:00:00 EDT 2020 using a space-padded day-of-month and putting the (24-hour!) time in the middle, between the month+day and ...
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