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waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 133

[SOLVED]locale: Cannot set LC_X to default locale: No such file or dir

Hello,

I have to say I'm lost in setting my locale. I come from Czech Republic and want to set my system to speak in EN and use cz_CZ.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 coding. I have locale set as you can see below. But if I try to run ZIM from command line I see this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/zim", line 38, in <module>
    import zim
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/__init__.py", line 147, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 581, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Sublime shows me this warning message:

Your system's locale is set to a value that can not handle non-ASCII characters. Package Control can not properly work unless this is fixed.

On Linux, please reference your distribution's docs for information on properly setting the LANG and LC_CTYPE environmental variables. As a temporary work-around, you can launch Sublime Text from the terminal with:

My locale.conf:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US:CS_CZ"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Command 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 directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.US-ASCII
LC_CTYPE=en_US.US-ASCII
LC_NUMERIC=cs_CZ.US-ASCII
LC_TIME=cs_CZ.US-ASCII
LC_COLLATE=en_US.US-ASCII
LC_MONETARY=cs_CZ.US-ASCII
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_PAPER="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_NAME="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_MEASUREMENT=cs_CZ.US-ASCII
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.US-ASCII"
LC_ALL=

My locale.gen:

$ cat /etc/locale.gen | grep -v "#"
cs_CZ.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Can I ask you how to set my locale?

Last edited by waldauf (2017-06-29 20:16:02)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,469

Re: [SOLVED]locale: Cannot set LC_X to default locale: No such file or dir

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

This would negate all the other settings in locale.conf
What is the output of

$ env
$ locale -a

waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 133

Re: [SOLVED]locale: Cannot set LC_X to default locale: No such file or dir

I did these settings now:

• Set LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8 in /etc/locale.conf

  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  LANGUAGE="en_US:CS_CZ"
  LC_COLLATE="C"
  LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

• In KDE's Regional Setting (tab Formats) set region=CZ and disabled Detailed settings.

• Removed ~/.config/locale.conf file (which seemed to me that didn't work.

And now it seems that works. My terminal emulator speaks in English what I needed. In fact I tried to set fine-grain locale without LC_ALL but I failed. This is much better and less work around.

@loqs - thanks for your advice. It was for me quick win. ;]

Last edited by waldauf (2017-06-29 12:48:08)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED]locale: Cannot set LC_X to default locale: No such file or dir

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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