[Bug 1255761] Re: Can't configure country, languages, or spell checker

[Knut Hildebrandt]

Well, /usr/share/locale/all_languages didn't exist. Just reinstalling
kdelibs5-data didn't help to bring it back. Following Steve's suggestion
and uninstalling localepurge first did the job. But it helped only
partially.

1. In systemsettings language I get the list with all languages again
and even can choose my preferred languages. But still there are no
flags, neither in the language setting dialogue nor for the keyboard
switch widget in the taskbar.

2. I still can't choose any other currency except US dollar, but even
for that not a symbol.

3. No change in the country tab. It still offers "System Country ()" and
"No Country (Default Settings)". Doesn't state that Spanish is set als
system language nor offers to change that.

4. In systemsettings dictionary I can choose now from "German ()"
"English ()" "English" "Spanish ()" "Spanish". Notice that English and
Spanish occure twice and German only once.

5. In kmail the situation imporved partially. I can now select die
dictionary for spell checking again. Only drawback, the German
dictionary doesn't work, whereas  both English and Spanish dictionaries
do. And German unfortunately is the one I use most ;-(

6 The localization of the kde applications seems to work again. Menus
are in the language that is the top one in "Preferred Languages", except
for the applications where the language was set separately.

Furthermor I noticed that ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh is back again. It
actually is created every time language settings are saved. And it still
messes up locales. After reinstalling kdelibs5-data and making some
changes to language settings they looked as follows:


knut at knubuntu:~$ 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_C.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE=de:es:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=

with ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh:

export LANG=de_C.ISO-8859-1
export LANGUAGE=de:es:en_GB:en


knut at knubuntu:~$ 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=es_C.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE=es:de:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_C.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=

with ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh:

export LANG=es_C.ISO-8859-1
export LANGUAGE=es:de:en_GB:en


knut at knubuntu:~$ 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=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE=en_GB:es:de:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=

with ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh:

export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
export LANGUAGE=en_GB:es:de:en

In all cases instead of UTF-8 ISO-8859-1 was set as charset which
interferred with quite a few applications as digikam and kontact. And
except for the English setting we again have strange locales like
de_C.ISO-8859-1 or es_C.ISO-8859-1. After I deleted the file everything
went back to normal and the system works as above stated. The only thing
I have do do that it stays like that, is deleting
~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh every time I make changes to language settings
in systemsettings. BTW, after deleting it the first time at least the
ISO-8859-1 charset isn't appended anymore, but UTF-8 again.

So I would say it more or less works for me again with some minor
drawbacks - like deleting ~/.kde/env/setlocale.sh business and the
missing flags and currency symbols - and of course the missing German
spell checking, which I regard a major loss.

BTW, apart from reinstalling kdelibs5-data I reinstalled all laguage
packages including those for kde and gnome. Only exception packages
related to firefox and libreoffice.



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