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Krapp

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Registered: 2021-09-24

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE & LC_ALL to default

Relevant information: im using i3wm
Hello, i have a problem, when i run locale on my console i get the following output:

[krapp@krapp-Thinkpad-T420 ~]$ 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=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
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=

The configuration i want is the Argentina locales (dates, hour, money) and the system language in english, so for that, in the installation i modified /etc/locale.gen uncommenting es_AR.UTF-8 UTF-8.
Then i ran locale-gen
After that I modified /etc/locale.conf writing LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Finally I modified /etc/vconsole.conf writing KEYMAP=la-latin1 (for spanish latin america keyboard layout).

Now, neither of that seems to be having any effect, because all my locales are now in en_US

Later i tried using i3status in the terminal, with this output:

Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct.

Then i tried using the following commands i found on internet:

sudo locale-gen es_AR.UTF-8 UTF-8 (nothing changed on locale output)
sudo update-locale es_AR.UTF-8 UTF-8 (update-locale: command not found)
export LC_ALL="es_AR.UTF-8"

This last command, the export one, it changed the locale output to this:

[krapp@krapp-Thinkpad-T420 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_AR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=es_AR.UTF-8

But it resets back to en_US after i reboot.

Also, every time i log in, i have my keyboard layout changed to en_US again.

Last edited by Krapp (2021-09-27 23:33:58)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,998

Re: [SOLVED] locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE & LC_ALL to default

The configuration i want is the Argentina locales (dates, hour, money) and the system language in english, so for that, in the installation i modified /etc/locale.gen uncommenting es_AR.UTF-8 UTF-8.
Then i ran locale-gen
After that I modified /etc/locale.conf writing LANG=en_US.UTF-8

You only enabled es_AR.UTF-8 so you can not use en_US.UTF-8 in locale.conf and you only set one value rather than a value for LANG and a different one for LC_NUMERIC plus LC_TIME.
Please also use code tags for commands and their outputs.

Krapp

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Registered: 2021-09-24

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE & LC_ALL to default

The configuration i want is the Argentina locales (dates, hour, money) and the system language in english, so for that, in the installation i modified /etc/locale.gen uncommenting es_AR.UTF-8 UTF-8.
Then i ran locale-gen
After that I modified /etc/locale.conf writing LANG=en_US.UTF-8

You only enabled es_AR.UTF-8 so you can not use en_US.UTF-8 in locale.conf and you only set one value rather than a value for LANG and a different one for LC_NUMERIC plus LC_TIME.
Please also use code tags for commands and their outputs.

Thanks a lot, I uncommented en_US.UTF-8 from locale.gen and I ran locale-gen in the command line, now locale has no errors when running it, now i have to figure out how to change my keyboard layout to la-latin1

EDIT - i think  man xkeyboard-config has the answer

Last edited by Krapp (2021-09-27 23:33:32)