[arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 121, Issue 5

Mon Nov 3 13:37:02 UTC 2014

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Paul Gideon Dann)
>    2. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Jesse Jaara)
>    3. Re: Where's my locale gone? (J?rgen Werner)
>    4. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Paul Gideon Dann)
>    5. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Paul Gideon Dann)
>    6. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Paul Gideon Dann)
>    7. Re: Where's my locale gone? (J?rgen Werner)
>    8. Re: Where's my locale gone? (Paul Gideon Dann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:21:18 +0000
> From: Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> On 31 October 2014 15:42, Mateus Rodrigues Costa <charles.costar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 2014-10-31 13:34 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> # sudo localectl set-locale en_GB.utf8
>>> Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data.
>>>
>>> Could this be a corrupted file? (Feasible, as we did have a power cut.) I
>>> tried reinstalling glibc, but that didn't help.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>
>> localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
>>
> 
> # sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
> # echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> # sudo localectl
>    System Locale: LANG=en-GB.utf8
>        VC Keymap: dvorak
>       X11 Layout: n/a
> 
> I tried a new login session too in a fresh VT, and the LANG environment
> variable is still en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Paul
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:24:54 +0200
> From: Jesse Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> Maybe you have the lang set somewhere in your shell configfile. Have you
> tried with a new user?
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:45:37 +0100
> From: J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> Am 03.11.2014 10:21, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann:
>> On 31 October 2014 15:42, Mateus Rodrigues Costa <charles.costar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2014-10-31 13:34 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>:
>>>> # sudo localectl set-locale en_GB.utf8
>>>> Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data.
>>>>
>>>> Could this be a corrupted file? (Feasible, as we did have a power cut.) I
>>>> tried reinstalling glibc, but that didn't help.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>> localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
>>>
>> # sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
>> # echo $LANG
>> en_US.UTF-8
>> # sudo localectl
>>     System Locale: LANG=en-GB.utf8
>>         VC Keymap: dvorak
>>        X11 Layout: n/a
>>
>> I tried a new login session too in a fresh VT, and the LANG environment
>> variable is still en_US.UTF-8.
>>
>> Paul
> 
> You have to run
> 
> # locale-gen
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:00:31 +0000
> From: Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> On 3 November 2014 09:24, Jesse Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe you have the lang set somewhere in your shell configfile. Have you
>> tried with a new user?
>>
> 
> Hmm; yeah, getting somewhere now. I haven't made any modifications to my
> shell config for a while, but I did find this (I use zprezto):
> 
> if [[ -z "LANG" ]]; then
>   export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
> fi
> 
> I've commented that out, and I get en_GB.UTF-8 now (which is odd in
> itself), but Tmux and Vim still render incorrectly: dividing lines are
> accented characters. The Linux built-in console renders some lines
> correctly, but some angled lines in Vim are rendered as blocks, so it
> doesn't seem to be a Konsole thing.
> 
> When I try to invoke "man", I get:
> 
> man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct.
> 
> I don't have any LC_ variable set manually, but I didn't think I needed
> to...
> 
> Also:
> 
> # 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_GB
> en_GB.iso88591
> en_GB.utf8
> 
> I've done:
> 
> # pacman -Qqkk | grep GB
> 
> ...but that returns nothing.
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:03:53 +0000
> From: Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> On 3 November 2014 09:45, J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> You have to run
>>
>> # locale-gen
>>
> 
> J?rgen, note my original post:
> 
>> I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I've
> also tried rerunning mkinitpio for good measure.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:08:44 +0000
> From: Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> On 3 November 2014 10:00, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Any more ideas?
>>
> 
> Oh BTW, I've also tried bypassing my ZSH config entirely, but no difference.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:03:27 +0100
> From: J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
> Message-ID: <545760FF.3080109 at web.de>
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> Am 03.11.2014 11:03, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann:
>> On 3 November 2014 09:45, J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> You have to run
>>>
>>> # locale-gen
>>>
>> J?rgen, note my original post:
>>
>>> I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I've
>> also tried rerunning mkinitpio for good measure.
>>
>> Paul
> 
> Well, I meant after running
> 
> sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
> 
> You didn't list that, so I thought you forgot it.
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:18:09 +0000
> From: Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?
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> On 3 November 2014 11:03, J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 03.11.2014 11:03, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann:
>>
>>  On 3 November 2014 09:45, J?rgen Werner <jotz.csp at web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>  You have to run
>>>>
>>>> # locale-gen
>>>>
>>>>  J?rgen, note my original post:
>>>
>>>  I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I've
>>>>
>>> also tried rerunning mkinitpio for good measure.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>
>> Well, I meant after running
>>
>> sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.utf8
>>
>> You didn't list that, so I thought you forgot it.
>>
> 
> OK, I see. I can't see why that would be necessary, but in the interest of
> completeness I've re-run locale-gen, and I'm afraid there was no effect.
> 
> Paul
> 
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i think you may just have a typo. shouldn't it be "en_GB.UTF-8" instead
of "en_GB.utf8"?