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rafdre

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From: Gdansk

Registered: 2013-09-21

Posts: 79

[SOLVED] problem with locale

some time ago I reinstalled my archlinux and after this time I do have issues with my locale settings.

I am using Blackbox.
As file manager I use Thunar.
In Thunar I could see a folder "ąść" which was created as test.
The same folder in terminator (terminal which I use) looks like this: "''$'\304\205\305\233\304\207'"
The same in xterm

Thats very annoying behaviour making a lot of troubles.

When I run "locale" I do have this

[root@archlinux default]# 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.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

When I run "localectl list-locales" or "localedef --list-archive" as dewscribed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
I see empty result.
I already executed  "locale-gen" but this does not help.

What can be wrong?

Trouble,shooting says "My terminal does not support UTF-8":
xterm - Run with the argument -u8 or configure resource xterm*utf8: 2.

what does it mean to configure resource and why before I never had such issue, though I was using exactly the same set up of programs (blackbox with xtem and terminator)

Last edited by rafdre (2018-11-01 08:25:49)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,110

Re: [SOLVED] problem with locale

What is the output of the following

locale -a
grep -ve ^# /etc/locale.gen
cat /etc/locale.conf

rafdre

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From: Gdansk

Registered: 2013-09-21

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] problem with locale

here all commands (one returns empty result)

[root@archlinux rafal]# 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

[root@archlinux rafal]# grep -ve ^# /etc/locale.gen
[root@archlinux rafal]#

[root@archlinux rafal]# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

rafdre

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From: Gdansk

Registered: 2013-09-21

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] problem with locale

one more comment. After installation I also run following command in order to be able to write polish characters:
localectl set-x11-keymap pl
thats why I could type "ąść". The problem is that it is not recognized in terminal. As I wrote in the first post. I do see everything correct in Thunar.

rafdre

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From: Gdansk

Registered: 2013-09-21

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] problem with locale

ok. problem solved.

What I did is following:
I edited the file /etc/locale.gen and uncommented two locales I need.
The I regenerated locales.

This tile it worked as it should:
[root@archlinux default]# locale-gen             
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  pl_PL.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

Quite frankly I do no recall uncommenting anything in /etc/locale.gen when I did previous installations.