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curmudgeon
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 Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:08 am Post subject: Where do I find en_SE.UTF-8? |
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Not sure whether this goes here or in Desktop Environments (as Plasma seems involved). I absolutely detest the short date format for my locale with every fiber of my being (I am not using en_US.UTF-8 as the output below shows, but something even worse). So looking through (in Plasma) System Settings / Regional Settings / Numeric, Currency and Time Formats, I notice that (for time) en_SE shows dates and times exactly how I would like them displayed, so I made that my time setting.
On next login, however, when running a perl script, I see:
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$ /path/to/some/perl.pl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "POSIX",
LC_TIME = "en_SE.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8".
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So, I looked in /etc/locale.gen, added "en_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8", and ran locale.gen.
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# locale-gen
* Generating 7 locales (this might take a while) with 4 jobs
* (3/7) Generating en_SE.UTF-8 ...
failed to set locale!
[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_SE': No such file or directory [ !! ]
[...]
* Generation complete
* Adding locales to archive ...
incomplete set of locale files in "//usr/lib64/locale/en_SE.utf8" [ !! ]
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Further reading the man page, I looked in /usr/share/i18n/locales/, and sure enough, it doesn't exist.
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$ ls -al /usr/share/i18n/locales/
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4638 2019-05-05 10:16:01 en_PH
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2548 2019-05-05 10:16:01 en_SC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4464 2019-05-05 10:16:01 en_SG
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3368 2019-05-05 10:16:01 en_US
[...]
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I always edit all of the locale files in localedata that I might use (every time I compile glibc) to reflect what I want, but that doesn't "fix" Plasma applications. And I don't want endless warnings in a shell, because I actually do most of my work at the command line. So where do I find en_SE.UTF-8 to include it in glibc (already using a relatively recent 2.28-r6), or does some other way exist to get glibc and Plasma to work together? |
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charles17
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ChadJoan
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I was just bringing up a new system and had the same issue as the OP.
It seems that Gentoo's stage3 doesn't have this file:
| Code: | | /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE |
But a previous computer of mine, with working en_SE locale, does have this file!
So let's look at the state of affairs on my old computer:
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# equery belongs /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US
* Searching for /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US ...
sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r5 (/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US)
# equery belongs /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE
* Searching for /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE ...
#
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Note that I looked into en_US first to get a baseline. Anyhow, interesting results. It seems en_SE isn't claimed by any package at this time. If I didn't get it from somewhere else, perhaps it came from an older version of glibc and then was phased out at some point? *shrug* I can only speculate. I definitely can't remember.
But.
Because I have an en_SE file, I can use that. So I copied it over to the new machine. And it worked!
So, for any reader in the future who encounters this problem and needs a solution, even if it's a bit unconventional, here are the contents of my working `/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE` file:
https://pastebin.com/HrSFwZWp
The file's timestamp is 2018-05-22.
Once I had copied that file into the same path on my new machine, I ran `locale-gen` again, and got this output:
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# locale-gen
* Generating 5 locales (this might take a while) with 56 jobs
* (5/5) Generating C.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* (3/5) Generating ja_JP.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* (2/5) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* (1/5) Generating en_SE.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* (4/5) Generating zh_CN.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* Generation complete
* Adding locales to archive ... [ ok ]
# locale -a
C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_SE.utf8
en_US.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
zh_CN.utf8
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Success!
Now, I haven't tested this in any other way. The system isn't running yet at the time I am writing this post. So there might be caveats, unforeseen consequences that I haven't encountered yet. But I wanted to publish what I had before I forget about it. (Also these locale files look self-contained enough, so I suspect this will be fine.) |
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hallthor
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| ChadJoan wrote: | I was just bringing up a new system and had the same issue as the OP.
It seems that Gentoo's stage3 doesn't have this file:
| Code: | | /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE |
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Just finished a basic install and ran into the same issue.
I don't really know how I ended up having en_SE in my locale (locale really messes with me every time) but it does not exit in /usr/share/i18n/locales
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So, for any reader in the future who encounters this problem and needs a solution, even if it's a bit unconventional, here are the contents of my working `/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE` file:
https://pastebin.com/HrSFwZWp
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couldn't access your pastebin - maybe this is worth a bug report and you could provide your en-SE file there? |
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cgorichanaz
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I ran into this recently as well, and found a good explanation of how to work around this at https://pig-monkey.com/2024/02/things-i-do-for-time/
Something like:
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$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_DK /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_SE
$ echo 'en_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8' | sudo tee -a /etc/locale.gen
$ sudo locale-gen
$ sed -i 's/^LC_TIME=.*/LC_TIME=en_SE.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.conf
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