https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496076
Bug ID: 496076
Summary: Broken locales when only LANG is defined in
plasma-localerc
Classification: Applications
Product: systemsettings
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: m...@aidanharr.is
Target Milestone: ---
When only LANG is defined in plasma-localerc, locales get set like this:
$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C
This breaks locales and results in cryptic error messages like:
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 32
Error converting string from ANSI_X3.4-1968 to UTF-8
I don't know why my plasma-localerc was set like this, maybe a hangover from a
previous version of KDE or something that wasn't migrated right but changing
the region to American English and back again fixed it and resulted in the
following changes to my configs:
$ sudo snapper -cconfig diff 6624..6626 | less -rf
--- /home/ahrs/.config/.snapshots/6624/snapshot/plasma-localerc 2020-03-31
23:57:53.539048957 +0000
+++ /home/ahrs/.config/.snapshots/6626/snapshot/plasma-localerc 2024-11-11
06:20:25.784709014 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,12 @@
[Formats]
-LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
+LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
+
+[Translations]
+LANGUAGE=en_GB
Is this something that can be migrated automatically somehow? Presumably there
are other users in this situation too.
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