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Troopo
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:08 am Post subject: [SOLVED] unsupported locale setting

Hi,

I have the same issue as in the title or this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1072508-start-0.html

No idea what is wrong, i've tried to follow the advice there and nothing worked

Here are my configs:

Code:

/etc/env.d/02locale
# Configuration file for eselect
# This file has been automatically generated.
LANG="en_US"

Code:

locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME=en_IL.US-ASCII
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=

Code:

locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX

Code:

/etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1

Code:

eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
[1] C
[2] C.utf8
[3] en_US *
[4] en_US.iso88591
[5] en_US.utf8
[6] POSIX
[ ] (free form)

Last edited by Troopo on Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:24 am; edited 1 time in total

Troopo
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:43 pm Post subject:

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mike155
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:00 pm Post subject:

Switch to en_US.utf8...

Code:

eselect locale set 5

Troopo
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:26 pm Post subject:

mike155 wrote:

Switch to en_US.utf8...

Code:

eselect locale set 5

Didn't work, tried all other options as well, something else is wrong.

mike155
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:03 pm Post subject:

Quote:

Didn't work, tried all other options as well, something else is wrong.

Well, step by step... Step by step...

en_US.utf8 is the correct locale that should be set with "eselect locale".

Next step: "LC_TIME=en_IL.US-ASCII." Where does this come from? Where do you set it and why do you set it?

Do you use openrc or systemd? If you use systemd: please post the output of "localectl"?

Troopo
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:38 am Post subject:

mike155 wrote:

Quote:

Didn't work, tried all other options as well, something else is wrong.

Yeah, step by step

Why do you say utf8 is the correct one?

I'm on a new system with openrc i just followed the handbook part about it, no idea where LC_TIME is coming from.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Configure_locales

mike155
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:17 am Post subject:

Quote:

I'm on a new system with openrc i just followed the handbook part about it, no idea where LC_TIME is coming from.

Ah, okay. I thought it happened on an existing machine.

Locales work on my machine, but I temporarily switched to "LC_TIME=en_IL.US-ASCII". After that, i got the error message you posted. So that seems to be the culprit.

You could try to change LC_TIME manually:

Code:

export LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
locale

The error message will be gone, right?

Now let's try to find out where "en_IL.US-ASCII" comes from:

Code:

cd /etc
grep -ir "en_IL.US-ASCII" .
cd ~
grep -ir "en_IL.US-ASCII" .

Do you get any results?

Troopo
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:53 am Post subject:

mike155 wrote:

Quote:

I'm on a new system with openrc i just followed the handbook part about it, no idea where LC_TIME is coming from.

Code:

export LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
locale

The error message will be gone, right?

Yep it's gone now

Quote:

Now let's try to find out where "en_IL.US-ASCII" comes from:

Code:

cd /etc
grep -ir "en_IL.US-ASCII" .
cd ~
grep -ir "en_IL.US-ASCII" .

Do you get any results?

Actually yes

Code:

./.config/plasma-localerc:LC_TIME=en_IL.US-ASCII

I forgot this but i've overwritten the time so it will show a 24h clock instead of a 12 hour one.

mike155
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 3:08 pm Post subject:

You could add the line below

Code:

en_IL UTF-8

to /etc/locale.gen. Then run 'locale-gen'. After that, 'locale -a' will hopefully show

Code:

...
en_IL
en_IL.utf8

After that, you can set

Code:

LC_TIME=en_IL.utf8

in .config/plasma-localerc.

Keep in mind that all values shown in the output of 'locale' must also be visible in the output of 'locale -a'.

Troopo
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:24 am Post subject:

mike155 wrote:

You could add the line below

Code:

en_IL UTF-8

to /etc/locale.gen. Then run 'locale-gen'. After that, 'locale -a' will hopefully show

Code:

...
en_IL
en_IL.utf8

After that, you can set

Code:

LC_TIME=en_IL.utf8

in .config/plasma-localerc.

Keep in mind that all values shown in the output of 'locale' must also be visible in the output of 'locale -a'.

Thanks mike! that seemed to fix it.

I should also add that i've set it to utf8 using eselect but on boot it is set to C but it seems that error is only caused by LC+TIME which is overridden by plasma so it's still ok

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