Spanish keeps popping up randomly [SOLVED]

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 00:20:18

I noticed a couple of days ago, spanish randomly appeared in my system, but I was able to fix it. Now everything is in English. Except when I installed chromium, it was in Spanish. I uninstalled it with `pacman -Rn chromium`, now how do I make sure I can install it in English? How do I stop Spanish from popping up randomly?

Last edited by TheKing42 (2014-11-05 10:36:36)

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 00:23:45

UPDATE: When I try tab completeing a random command, this popped up:

$ yaourt -S xfce-thbash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (es_US.utf8)
^C

Notice the `es_US.utf8` in there. This must be related.

jasonwryan · 2014-11-04 00:25:14

TheKing42 wrote:

How do I stop Spanish from popping up randomly?

You can't...

But if you insist on trying, you'll need to post details of your locale setup.

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 00:44:18

UPDATE: I installed Arandr and it was spanish too. It appears all new apps are in spanish.

jasonwryan · 2014-11-04 00:45:03

Perhaps stop posting UPDATES until you are prepared to post your locale details?

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 01:09:01

jasonwryan
Sorry, I did not see your post. Is this what you mean?

$ locale -a
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_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8

Trilby · 2014-11-04 01:22:33

What is the output of "echo $LANG"? This looks exactly like the symptoms here

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 23:07:40

Huh, it appears that this happens:

$ echo $LANG
es_US.utf8

I thought I changed my language though. How can I switch it to English, and make sure it sticks?

jasonwryan · 2014-11-04 23:17:34

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … le_setting

progandy · 2014-11-04 23:20:28

There are also some other files where you can set the LANG environment variable, for example:

/etc/environment
~/.pam_environment
~/.*profile
~/.*rc

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TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 23:30:23

I did localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8, and then logged out and back in. It didn't work.

jasonwryan · 2014-11-04 23:34:24

How did you install Arch: Evolution, or Manjaro or one of the other derivatives?

TheKing42 · 2014-11-04 23:50:23

jasonwryan I did it straight from the arch iso on a thumbdrive following the noob guide. Any other commands I should use to search my system. Did I mention I am doing this as a regular user, and that root is fine?

Trilby · 2014-11-05 02:57:44

grep "LANG=es" /etc/*
grep -rl "LANG=es" ~/.*

TheKing42 · 2014-11-05 10:33:44

Up, a reboot purged Spanish from my system. Problem, SOLVED.

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