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anwellcoleman

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From: Portugal, Europe

Registered: 2020-08-12

Posts: 3

KDE Plasma 5.19 - Problems with System Language and Sublime Text 3

Hello everyone, so I've been searching around and trying to fix this annoying problem but for now I had no luck.

When I open Sublime Text 3 I get this window:

Also if I change the Region Format to Portuguese it changes my whole system language and KDE won't allow me to "Add languages...". The only language I have available is American English (en_US.UTF-8) but it changes to European Portuguese if I change my region to there.

My /etc/locale.conf

/etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

In /etc/locale.gen I only have this two uncommented:

/etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8

I tried running Sublime Text like it tells me but the error repeats

$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 subl
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

And changed sublime-text.desktop to this:

/usr/share/applications/sublime_text.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Sublime Text
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Exec=bash -c "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text %F"
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/plain;
Icon=sublime-text
Categories=TextEditor;Development;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=Window;Document;

[Desktop Action Window]
Name=New Window
Exec=bash -c "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text -n"
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

[Desktop Action Document]
Name=New File
Exec= bash -c "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --command new_file"
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

I also changed my settings in ~/.config/plasma, even tried deleting it. Right now it looks like this:

~/.config/plasma-localerc
[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I used to have a lot more options here but I reverted everything, hoping to fix the problem because this only started when I changed my Region, I also reverted this to United States (en_US) but to no avail.

Running locale gives me all this:

$ 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=

locale -a

$ 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

localectl:

$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: pt-latin1
      X11 Layout: n/a

And at last, locale-gen gives me this:

$ locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory

Last edited by anwellcoleman (2020-08-12 20:25:09)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,388

Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 - Problems with System Language and Sublime Text 3

locale-gen needs to be run with root rights .

Verify the uncommented entries in /etc/locale.gen look exactly like

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8

then re-run locale-gen .

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anwellcoleman

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From: Portugal, Europe

Registered: 2020-08-12

Posts: 3

Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 - Problems with System Language and Sublime Text 3

locale-gen needs to be run with root rights .

Verify the uncommented entries in /etc/locale.gen look exactly like

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8

then re-run locale-gen .

I forgot to add here the 2nd UTF-8, running as root gives me the same error. I even deleted everything, just left there en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8.

$ cat /etc/locale.gen 
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8 UTF-8

$ sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,388

Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 - Problems with System Language and Sublime Text 3

That error could still result from running with insufficient rights .

Please run locale-gen from a console terminal where you are logged in as root  or use su --login + root password  to switch a terminal from normal user to root

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anwellcoleman

Member

From: Portugal, Europe

Registered: 2020-08-12

Posts: 3

Re: KDE Plasma 5.19 - Problems with System Language and Sublime Text 3

So... I messed up my partition while working on windows, had to install arch linux again. I followed the wiki more thoroughly and now everything seems fine, it even fixed the System Language problem it seems.

Thanks for the help anyways.