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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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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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Windows Defaulting language to 'Unknown Language' Causing applications to crash on startup

Recently I've noticed that windows seems to be defaulting by system language for all applications to 'Unknown Language': This is causing some applications to crash on startup. If I quickly change the ...
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Can I keep Windows from defaulting printers to A4 paper?

There's an old joke that English will be the language of Heaven, because Americans won't learn foreign languages. Microsoft seems to have internalized this joke... I am an American English speaker; ...
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How do I type the backslash/Yen/¥ character on Japanese Windows?

I am running VirtualBox on a Ubuntu 12.04 host with a US keyboard. The virtual machine is running Japanese Windows Server 2008 R2 (Standard). I want to cd \ from the Command Prompt. On Japanese ...
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