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Supernova

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[SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

I issued a system update via "sudo pacman -Syu" after following this announcement.
https://www.archlinux.org/news/initscri … -required/

Now, after update, it changed the system language(not keyboard layout though) to us_US from it_IT.
How do I change it back? I changed the us_US to it_IT in all possible locations.
>rc.conf
>locale.conf
>locale.sh
in their respective locations.
The language is still in English. I want it in Italian, like it was.
Thanks!

Last edited by Supernova (2011-10-28 18:37:32)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

I think LOCALE changes are only applied after a reboot (just in case you haven't done that after changing locale.conf).

Otherwise sorry, I use English so I can't be of much help.

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Supernova

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

Of course I rebooted but it didn't change. Just tried again.Any help?

KingX

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

did you try running locale-gen (as root) after setting the locale in /etc/locale.gen ?

Supernova

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

did you try running locale-gen (as root) after setting the locale in /etc/locale.gen ?

Yes, I commented us_US locales out which happened to be uncommented out(maybe after the update?). Then uncommented the it_IT 3 locales which I need, saved the file, run locale-gen as root, it said generation completed, rebooted, still nothing. Everywhere that could affect the locale, I have set it_IT as locale. I am confused at this point.

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

us_US doesn't exist. is en_US and you shouldn't move to the new way unless you have problems sourcing rc.conf ad login

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Supernova

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

us_US doesn't exist. is en_US and you shouldn't move to the new way unless you have problems sourcing rc.conf ad login

Yeah, en_US is what I meant.
Still, no luck even though I changed every possible variable to it_IT from en_US that could affect the locale of my system. Ran locale-gen as root, rebooted. Still nothing.
Meh!

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

pots output of locale and locale -a

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Supernova

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

pots output of locale and locale -a

locale -a

C
italian
it_IT
it_IT@euro
it_IT.iso88591
it_IT.iso885915@euro
it_IT.utf8
POSIX

locale

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Everything is in English now. I want them like they were, in Italian

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

LC_MESSAGES=C

means the output of .e.g pacman will be in English.

Supernova

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

LC_MESSAGES=C

means the output of .e.g pacman will be in English.

Removed this line and it fixed it.
Thanks everyone for helping!

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Pacman broke locale

LC_MESSAGES=C

means the output of .e.g pacman will be in English.

Removed this line and it fixed it.
Thanks everyone for helping!

This setting is very helpful when you paste the output on the forums as not everyone speaks Italian, but it's enough if you do

LC_ALL=C <command>

to get output in English, no need to set it to C by default.