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How to change konsole to English - getting errors bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale
When I open a new konsole window I keep getting these errors: bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_XX.UTF-8): No such file or directory bash: warning: setlocale: LC_COLLATE: ...
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How do I re-enable the USB keyboard after changing the layout/language in GRUB?
I changed the keyboard layout in GRUB on a laptop to German/QWERTZ using the instructions from these posts. How to change grub command-line (grub shell) keyboard layout? Create de layout: grub-...
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Hiragana won't show in Firefox but it works in other Ubuntu programs
I need some help with using the Japanese keyboard setting (Mozc) on Firefox. It works in other programs like notepad or a Terminal, but the characters never show in Firefox. How can I solve this issue?...
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How to get Danish letters on US (physical) keyboard on Fedora Linux?
I am a Dane residing in the USA. On Windows, I select "US International Keyboard", and I can produce æ, ø, å with Alt-Gr+z, Alt-Gr+l, Alt-Gr+w. How can I do the same on Fedora Linux? Is ...
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How do I configure US layout with German special characters (on Fedora/GNOME/wayland)?
On a Fedora system running GNOME under Wayland, I want to accomplish the following: regular US ANSI layout international keys / unicode keys on Right Alt+key (I really only need the German ones and ...
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Wine Converted App (Fox Weiqi) Not Showing Chinese (or CJK) Characters
I'm able to run the Fox Weiqi client (the foreign version) perfectly with Wine. And I can type and see CJK characters just fine on apps (I use FCITX). Is Wine not able to access these characters by ...
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apt randomly switches languages ever since I installed Arabic on my Pop!_OS running KDE Plasma
I recently installed Arabic on my system and since then apt sometimes does things in Arabic and sometimes in English user@pop-os:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Hit:1 https://dl.winehq....
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How to remove unneeded languages from video files using ffmpeg?
I have a number of video files (500+) with lots of audio and subtitle streams for languages that I don't need and would thus like to remove to conserve storage space. I tinkered around with ffmpeg, ...
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How to completely remove locale from Manjaro Linux?
I recently had the (in hindsight stupid) ideas to enable a second locale on my computer in addition to en_CA. This second locale was zh_CN. To make sure it worked (and to "check it out"), I ...
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error: Bad entry 'en_AG ', etc, when generating locales on Linux Mint
I am unsure what is happening with those "bad locales", I am updating my laptop regularly once daily. This came up today: Setting up locales (2.35-0ubuntu3.4) ... Generating locales (this ...
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Ubuntu - PostegreSQL displays errors in foreign language even after changing all locales to en_US and reinstalling it
I inherited a Ubuntu desktop from another employee and installed PostgreSQL with the help of the official guide. abc@lenovo:~$ sudo apt install postgresql-15 I had not known that I had to setup an ...
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Why is debug flag in GCC abbreviated "g"?
In GCC the debug flag is "-g". I have not been able to find why "g" was chosen for this. Does anyone know?
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Matching Japanese regex (simple ranges) in bash doesn't work as intended
I am pretty sure my regexes are fine but they don't work with bash. I crafted them myself using https://unicode.org/charts/. As you will see, they work properly with awk. Here are the ranges to spare ...
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How to make a Linux system only use english as a locale and language, but use another one on a GUI/Desktop Environment?
Let's say that I install a Linux in my native language (english), and that the user I'm doing the install for only knows spanish (which all I know of is: Que?). English being obviously far easier for ...
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How do I change the language of the man pages on Debian, while keeping the default language as english
I've tried changing the man pages on debian from English to Italian but all I have tried hasn't worked yet. First of all, I installed the manpages in Italian with apt install manpages-it. I then ...