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verdict22322

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Registered: 2020-08-23

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[SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

https://i.imgur.com/Vgb5fIy.jpg

this is error comes up in any video game i start, i know i messed up something with locales.

I did in /etc/locale.conf type LANG=en-US.UTF-8 than fixed it to LANG=en_US.UTF-8
i also find out i my /etc/locale.gen had # unchecked for
en_US.UTF-12 UTF-8 
en_US ISO-8859-1
instead it was unchek'd for some spanish, idk why maybe i made a mistake on my part... somehow, although im pretty sure i didnt.
After fixing both of these issues, and restarting my laptop the issue still prevails.

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Last edited by verdict22322 (2021-09-02 17:57:30)

E3LDDfrK

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

Did you try "locale" just to check and "# locale-gen"?

Last edited by E3LDDfrK (2020-08-23 11:52:02)

GeorgeJP

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

i also find out i my /etc/locale/gen had # unchecked for
en_US.UTF-12 UTF-8 
en_US ISO-8859-1

Is en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 also unchecked?

verdict22322

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

i also find out i my /etc/locale.gen had # unchecked for
en_US.UTF-12 UTF-8 
en_US ISO-8859-1

Is en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 also unchecked?

I dont have UTF-8 specifically, rather as laid out
en_US.UTF-12 UTF-8 
en_US ISO-8859-1

with one space between UTS-12 and UTF-8 as i laid above.
Maybe i should write one down? Is it a bug?

I change from en_US.UTF-12 UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 

and than changed locale.conf from 12 to 8 too.

After that i did:

$ unset LANG
$ source /etc/profile.d/locale.sh

still i've got the same error

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

There's nothing such as "UTF-12", there's UTF-8 and UTF-16.

vim accident, I guess.

You need to also generate the locale, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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verdict22322

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Registered: 2020-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

Thank you! It seems i failed to generate the locale when i attempted to change everything to UTF-8 last time, all works fine without an error now.

Last edited by verdict22322 (2020-08-24 16:37:16)

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]UTF_8 locale error when starting up games and stuff

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).