[SOLVED]locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No...

[Yminus]

Hello,

I tried to set the locale on my system according to the localization guide:

My /etc/env.d/02locale looks like this:

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LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8@euro"
#LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_GB:en"

But after

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# env-update && source /etc/profile
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

I get:

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# 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=de_DE.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8@euro

Now I tried generate my locale:

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# localedef -c -i de_DE.UTF-8@euro
Try `localedef --help' or `localedef --usage' for more information.

Does anyone know what could be wrong with my system?

[Yminus]

OK, I edited /etc/locale.gen so it contains these lines now

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en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.utf8@euro UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8

I generated the locales

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 # locale-gen
 * Generating 8 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs
 *  (1/8) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ...                                                                              [ ok ]
 *  (2/8) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ...                                                                                   [ ok ]
 *  (3/8) Generating en_US.utf8.UTF-8@euro ...                                                                         [ ok ]
 *  (4/8) Generating de_DE.ISO-8859-1 ...                                                                              [ ok ]
 *  (5/8) Generating de_DE.UTF-8 ...                                                                                   [ ok ]
 *  (6/8) Generating de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro ...                                                                        [ ok ]
 *  (7/8) Generating de_DE.UTF-8.UTF-8@euro ...                                                                        [ ok ]
 *  (8/8) Generating de_DE.utf8.UTF-8@euro ...                                                                         [ ok ]
 * Generation complete

Now after

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 # env-update && source /etc/profile
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

I get:

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 # locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8@euro

No errors - good.
But although I commented out LC_ALL and set

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LC_COLLATE="C" 

and

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LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8@euro"

it's

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LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"

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LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"

???

[Yminus]

OK, this is the current status:
In the console all settings are as expexcted:

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LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8@euro
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_ALL=

In Xterms it's:

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LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8@euro

In Xterms umlauts are displayed like this: "ae" instead of "ä"
In KDE Applikations like kwrite, krusader, ... umlauts look like this:
"À" instead of "ä"
In Firefox, SciTE and other GTK Applikations umlauts are displayed correctly.

Can please someone give me some hints how to find the reason of all this mess?

[Yminus]

Ending this monologue.

I found out that LC_ALL has to be overwritten explicitly in /etc/env.d/02locale if it has been set once.

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LC_ALL=""

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write some nonesense to LC_ALL

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# nano -w /etc/env.d/02locale 
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_US:en"
LC_ALL="nonesense"

And look what you've done:

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# env-update
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
# source /etc/profile

# 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=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="nonesense"
LC_NUMERIC="nonesense"
LC_TIME="nonesense"
LC_COLLATE="nonesense"
LC_MONETARY="nonesense"
LC_MESSAGES="nonesense"
LC_PAPER="nonesense"
LC_NAME="nonesense"
LC_ADDRESS="nonesense"
LC_TELEPHONE="nonesense"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nonesense"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nonesense"
LC_ALL=nonesense

2. Comment out the LC_ALL nonesense:

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# nano -w /etc/env.d/02locale 
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_US:en"
#LC_ALL="nonesense"

And check that the problem remains:

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# env-update
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
# source /etc/profile
# 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=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="nonesense"
LC_NUMERIC="nonesense"
LC_TIME="nonesense"
LC_COLLATE="nonesense"
LC_MONETARY="nonesense"
LC_MESSAGES="nonesense"
LC_PAPER="nonesense"
LC_NAME="nonesense"
LC_ADDRESS="nonesense"
LC_TELEPHONE="nonesense"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nonesense"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nonesense"
LC_ALL=nonesense

3. Now set LC_ALL to the empty string:

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LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en_US:en"
LC_ALL=""

And the problem is gone:

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 # locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=