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somniumAeternam

Member

Registered: 2015-06-17

Posts: 16

KDE Plasma 5 wrong language

Hallo everyone,

I recently installed arch linux with the new KDE Plasma 5 desktop completely new and I got a problem with the language settings. Although I installed the german language package (kde-l10n-de) und configured all regional settings to german, the desktop remains in english.

The output of locale:

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

The output of locale -a:

C
de_DE
de_DE@euro
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE.utf8
deutsch
german
POSIX

The output of localectl:

System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C
VC Keymap: de-latin1
X11 Layout: de
X11 Variant: latin1

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,313

Re: KDE Plasma 5 wrong language

This is your problem:

LC_MESSAGES=C

Why is LC_MESSAGES set to C?

somniumAeternam

Member

Registered: 2015-06-17

Posts: 16

Re: KDE Plasma 5 wrong language

That was from a tutorial. I can't really explain, why. I removed it from /etc/locale.conf.

So, now the output for localectl is:

System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
VC Keymap: de-latin1
X11 Layout: de
X11 Variant: latin1

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,543

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Re: KDE Plasma 5 wrong language

That was from a tutorial.

Which one?  Certainly not one on our wiki, right?  Following some random guide is probably the number one leading cause of problems with arch linux.  Most of those guides are advertised as doing things "the easy way".  No - the easy way is to not screw it up and follow our wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide

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somniumAeternam

Member

Registered: 2015-06-17

Posts: 16

Re: KDE Plasma 5 wrong language

Basically, I follow the arch linux wiki. But I got problems with the language settings (half was english, half german) and searched google to solve it. I found the "solution" with the "LC_MESSAGES=C", which didn't help. But I forgot to restore the default setting. However, the deletion of the "LC_MESSAGES=C" line in /etc/locale.conf was the solution. Now it works fine. Thanks for the right solution.