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zw0rk

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Registered: 2010-02-09

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[SOLVED] Locale problem

Hi. I've got the following:

[zw0rk@myhost ~]$ locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
ru_RU.utf8

In /etc/rc.conf:

LOCALE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
KEYMAP="ru"
CONSOLEFONT="cyr-sun16"
CONSOLEMAP=

But:

[zw0rk@myhost ~]$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

And, if i switch my locale with "export LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"", all cyrillc symbols are translated to squares (in sakura) or hieroglyphs (in urxvt).

I have teminus, xorg-fonts-cyrillic installed.

How do i:

1) Fix the default locale
2) Force GUI consoles to use correct fonts?

Last edited by zw0rk (2011-11-17 21:54:51)

zw0rk

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Registered: 2010-02-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

Am i asking something stupid? I've made everything using WIKI and on my prev. Arch installation this config worked well :-/

Last edited by zw0rk (2011-11-16 08:01:34)

whoami

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Registered: 2011-11-13

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

hi,

do you have the file 'locale.sh' in /etc/profile.d deleted befor updating ? or is the file missing ?

to make sure:

rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
pacman -Syu
pacman -S initscripts (to force installation of locale.sh)
reboot

did you read the "/etc/locale.gen" section in the beginners guide ?

whoami

Last edited by whoami (2011-11-16 19:26:33)

zw0rk

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Registered: 2010-02-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

I've read locale.gen section and I've reproduced these steps. Locale is set properly now, but the fonts are still missing.

I'm in Xfce4 if it matters.

nexus7

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Registered: 2006-12-06

Posts: 285

Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

2) Force GUI consoles to use correct fonts?

So in xfce you probably use "terminal" (aka "xfce-terminal"). Font configuration there is easy with setting your preferences in "appearance" via the menu bar or right-click.

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zw0rk

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

No. I'm using urxvt (with terminus configured in .Xdefaults) and sakura (where i've set terminus via right-click menu). I'm not THAT stupid

nexus7

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From: brain dump

Registered: 2006-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

lol, welcome!

Hieroglyphs indicate a font is displayed in a wrong encoding, and boxes that a font does not contain certain character(s), however. It is something specific on declaring types of fonts in a config file; truetype-fonts are different than e.g. bitmap fonts. The first need a preceeding "xft:", and also all the other properties like font name and typeface need a different format than the latter, as seen here and there. (I don't use urxvt or sakura btw.)

Regarding your locale: do xfce and the other programs (with installed language pack/enabled localisation) already show their menus and all in Russian?

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twilight0

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

Do you use LightDM? I had the same issue with LightDM. An upstream bug has already been reported.

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nexus7

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From: brain dump

Registered: 2006-12-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

twilight0: if you mean me, no, I don't use LightDM.

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zw0rk

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

Yes, the problem was with LightDM. Switching to SLIM solves it.

Last edited by zw0rk (2011-11-17 21:54:37)

twilight0

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

twilight0: if you mean me, no, I don't use LightDM.

Oups sorry for not making clear, I only asked the author of this topic.

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nexus7

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Re: [SOLVED] Locale problem

twilight0: if you mean me, no, I don't use LightDM.

Oups sorry for not making clear, I only asked the author of this topic.

nvm, you helped to solve the problem though.

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