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Why is ls sorting Chinese filenames by length?
You'll notice that among the strings of same length, there appears to be a relative order of those characters, so they're not totally treated as being equivalent. It's not like the 🧚🧛🧜 which have ...
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How to get the current value of LC_CTYPE etc. in Bash?
Assuming evaluating the output of locale is safe (we assume that locale is not a shell function, alias, or other non-standard utility):
(eval "$(locale)" && printf '%s\n' "$...
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apt randomly switches languages ever since I installed Arabic on my Pop!_OS running KDE Plasma
The LANGUAGE environment variable is specific to GNU gettext (and therefore influences the programs using gettext as a way to ease their internationalization)
You define LANGUAGE=en_US:en_US:en_US:ar
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Cannot set LC_* to default locale: No such file or directory
Considering the very last line of my question (Thanks Chris Davies for the pointer):
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locales is not installed
It was easy just to install the locales package, which I ...
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How to preserve non-ASCII characters?
that's not happening on the server; the displaying of characters is done locally by your terminal emulator. So you need a terminal that cleanly deals with these characters. Should pretty much be UTF-8 ...
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Why is ls sorting Chinese filenames by length?
I found out where macOS stores locale files, in /usr/share/locale, and to my surprise this is how the zh_CN.UTF-8 locale is defined:
% ls -la /usr/share/locale/zh_CN.UTF-8
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 8 root ...
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How to get the current value of LC_CTYPE etc. in Bash?
According to man locale the value of LC_CTYPE being enclosed in double quotes signifies it's an "implied value":
Values for variables set in the environment are printed without
double ...
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How to unset a locale variable using localectl?
localectl can’t unset a locale variable directly, however it does simplify locale variable assignments, clearing LC_ variables whose value equals that of LANG. So you can clear LC_TIME by setting it ...
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LC_TIME portability (and other locale settings)
The short answer: Yes. POSIX and Unicode CLDR.
The longer version:
If we look at the FreeBSD Developer Handbook Chapter 4. Localization and Internationalization - L10N and I18N it tells us FreeBSD ...
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How to fix a locale warning from Perl?
The problem comes from
LC_MEASUREMENT=Default.UTF-8
You need to find where that’s set and correct it. It could be somewhere in /etc or in your shell startup scripts.
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How do I get a locale or timezone used on Venus?
The question concerns the non-quoting, double-quoting, and single-quoting of a command substitution.
The point made in that answer is that without double-quoting the command substitution $(date) or `...
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Preview locales
You could do something like:
LC_ALL=en_DK.UTF-8 locale -kc $(
locale | sed '/^LC_/!d;/^LC_ALL=/d;s/=.*//'
)
(assuming $IFS not modified from its default) which would give you keyword=values for ...
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Change locale LC_NUMERIC decimal_point for shell or individual command
As somebody(?)
pointed out, you should probably have the “C” or “POSIX” locale
on even a minimal system.
So, as you probably understand, you should be able to say
LC_NUMERIC=C
or
LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
(...
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Change locale LC_NUMERIC decimal_point for shell or individual command
You can set environment variables for a single command:
LC_ALL=C yourcommand
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How to get the current value of LC_CTYPE etc. in Bash?
If you just want to parse the output of locale and then set the variable, you can just source it directly like this:
. <(locale | grep '^LC_CTYPE=')
That selects only the LC_TYPE line:
$ locale | ...
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Why is MB_CUR_MAX 6 instead of 4 for UTF-8? (Linux, glibc)
According to Wikipedia, UTF-8 indeed needed up to 6 bytes until 2003, when RFC 3629 added some constraints:
UTF-8 was first officially presented at the USENIX conference in San
Diego, from January 25 ...
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How to completely remove locale from Manjaro Linux?
In the comments, you already checked and fixed ~/.config/plasma-localerc.
Check also the system default locale settings, using the localectl command. Those system defaults might be the only locale ...
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