Questions tagged [locale]
A locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences, such as date format and currency, that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.
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Why is openSUSE TW complaining can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct?
I recently noticed that every console applications is griping about my locale settings. I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64.
09:39 ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such ...
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How to tell Excel what date format to read cells as WITHOUT changing the cell content?
I'm opening a CSV file which contains dates in the European format, dd/mm/yyyy. When opening it with Excel, Excel thinks they are in the American mm/dd/yyyy format, which makes sorting/filtering just ...
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How to change the locale or language used for Google Translate dropdown?
I am using this website:
https://subtitlestranslator.com/en/translate.php
After uploading some subtitles, it lets me to choose the language but the language is shown in the current location I am in ...
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Inserting month in watermark is not using system locale
I need to insert the date in the video with the format %d %b %Y. My locale configuration is in spanish:
❯ locale
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="...
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Not able to set lang to CN in zsh macOS, but locale is good. The word “total” is still shown in English
~/.zshrc:
export LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
export LANGUAGE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN....
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AWK: "invalid regexp: Invalid collation character" -- how do I make it valid?
I have an awk script that must process millions of records, but I need to remove any containing a multibyte character.
In one environment where I work, the following simplified shell sequence ...
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Formatting of dates (Days / Months) on Windows 10 / 11
I know that we have a certain amount of control in the operating system to adjust the way dates are displayed.
This issue relates to how some of the locales display:
Days
Months
For some locales it ...
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Windows keyboard layout "ZZ" cannot be removed
During some locale changes I've done, it seems like I accidently added the "ZZ" English (United Arab Emirates) keyboard layout.
I tried removing it in many ways, but it seems the layout does ...
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Unable to resolve localhost after having installed Rancher desktop
I recently installed Rancher desktop, with dockerd (moby) container runtime.
Now, with Chrome, I cannot reach services exposed on localhost.
The same services are reachable at 127.0.0.1.
In the hosts ...
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Thunderbird on Windows: missing folders with non-Latin names after restoring from a backup
I've copied my Thunderbird profile (a directory called like f4gokpr4.default) from one Windows 10 machine to another Windows 10 machine. Account names are the same, all absolute paths I know about are ...
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Regional Formats, create my own, covering ALL, how?
Is there a single easy option to have an "International" Region/Language option?
e.g. I wish to have a DATE format as indicated by these...
$ date --rfc-3339=date
2022-10-10
$ date --iso-...
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Custom Date Locale in Excell
Does anyone know where the date locales are stored in Excel? I would love to be able to create a custom format (a copy of the gregorian calendar, but with different month and weekday names).
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Why is my "locale" not respecting default locale?
On my Ubuntu 20.04LTS system, whenever I run locale:
$ locale
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LC_MESSAGES=C
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In spite of my /etc/default/locale/:
$ cat /etc/default/locale
# File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_US....
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SDDM login screen showing wrong time format
first thing: I'm using KDEneon as system, no particular mods.
I have a small problem is really small but is bothering me...
I set system-wide English language, but than something puzzling happen.
The ...
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How can uninstall an app whose name consists of garbled characters from Windows 10?
I want to uninstall the app whose name consists of garbled characters.
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