Questions tagged [locale]
A locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface.
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Invalid characters in ssh sessions
I'm opening an SSH session from Fedora to Raspberry Pi OS. Accented and special characters are replaced with question marks. Preferably I would like to learn to solve this without changing the server'...
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Why does Nautilus sort these files in this order?
In Nautilus (Debian 12, en_US.UTF-8, GNOME Files 43.2), the following eight files are sorted in the following order:
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a
To answer the question (Why does Nautilus sort these files ...
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Change time to 12 hours format on debian in KDE Plasma
I searched so much for Debian Linux on how to change my clock on Debian from 24-hour format to 12-hour format, whether it's a command line or whatever it is, or graphical. I got to the Region and ...
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How can I resolve this error: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8
On my device I frequently receive this message (especially when booting):
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
QT depends on UTF-8 ...
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`type` command ignores `LANG` after upgrading to `bash` 5.3 on iTerm2/macOS
I'm on macOS and I set English as the locale except for LC_TIME:
~ $ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-...
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Debian 12 profile locale file location?
I finally got profile locale settings to my liking.
Now it shows ISO standard everywhere. But where is the conf file so I can copy it to another machine? `
administrator@debian12kde:~$ locale -a
C
C....
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Where can I find the source code to language pack templates?
I was curious to dig a little deeper into this question and realised that I don't know where to look for language pack templates. But beyond basic high-level discussion in locale-gen, I'm at a bit of ...
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Where are the LC_ locale global environment variables configured?
I want to change the language of my computer. I tried doing this with sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales. this changed the LANG environment variable in /etc/default/locale but none of the LC environment ...
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How are leading spaces handled in sort -k?
I have a file named test with the following content:
12288
4096
505
Note that there's a single space before 12288, two spaces before 4096 and three spaces before 505.
When I run GNU sort -k1.1,...
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How can I apply a function to cells in place in Calc?
I have a large table of numbers using the wrong decimal separator for my locale (dot instead of comma), so LibreOffice Calc does not parse them as numbers, but as strings. I can apply this function to ...
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setting system locale to C...what is the appropriate charmap?
i use arch and want to set my whole system's locale to C (and only C). C isn't listed inside /etc/locale.gen (and only en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 is uncommented) but C is found inside /usr/share/i18n/locales/.
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Locale: Unable to get correct date (for Sunday of this week)
I did the following yesterday night (before midnight of Sunday in Germany):
Today's date
$ LC_TIME="en.GB.UTF8" date --iso-8601
2025-01-12
Today's date (day of the week
$ LC_TIME="en....
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How to run Thunar with original text when using system with different locale?
I want to ask a question related to Thunar (or even Google something), but I'm not able to see original text.
I've tried to run:
LC_ALL=C thunar
but it just creates new instance of Thunar that ...
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CUPS Webinterface Time Format
On my CUPS (UNIX/Linux Printing System) Webinterface, let's say:
http://192.168.0.2:631/jobs/
it shows a printjob currently being processed as follows:
processing since Thu 12 Dec 2024 08:21:13 PM ...
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How are the locations in the select your location screen in the debian installation categorized?
I have to select a location in order to install Debian. 18 locations can be chosen on the first page of the selection. Others are available when selecting other. Which logic determines if a location ...
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