Locale Issues in (K)ubuntu
I’ve had some issues with the Locale-settings in ubuntu, mostly related to displaying/ writing norwegian letters (like æøå).
Locale explenation
- LC_NUMERIC: Numeric formatting.
- LC_PAPER: Default paper size (A4, Letter etc.).
- LC_TIME: Date and time formats.
- LC_ALL: Setting this overrides all other LC_* and is not recommended.
- LANG: Default locale.
- LANGUAGE: A colon-separated list of languages (not locales) preferred used in applications. E.g.
nb:se:en.
Locale in KDE
KDE offers a gui in system settings for changing locale.
However, there is
a bug (at least in Kubuntu)
that makes this set invalid locale-settings
when trying to set language and country independently.
E.g. if I set country to Norway
(to get Norwegian regional settings
for currency, time etc.),
and langage to American English,
locale is set to the invalid value en_NO.UTF-8.
One proposed fix is
setting language to British English instead of American.
Another is manually editing
~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh
which appearently is the file used by the settings-gui.
No norwegian letters in Chromium
Tested in Kubuntu 14.04
This problem is accompanied with error-messages when apt-get tries to update locale settings. These messages reveal that it tries to set locale to “en_NO.UTF-8” which of course doesn’t exist. See solution above.
