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    #16
    Sure. Hartfield, Kent. About six months Click image for larger version

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    Er, no. But I really enjoyed Noble House.

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      #17
      This is what I have, which works for me in KDE Neon!

      ~$ locale
      LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
      LANGUAGE=en_GB
      LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
      LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_TIME=ja_JP.UTF-8
      LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_MONETARY=ja_JP.UTF-8
      LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
      LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
      LC_ALL=

      Hong Kong is one of my favourite places, along with Bangkok and Taipei. I can't count the number of times I've been to HK, at one point it was twice a year. Last year I went only once but I'm booked for March 1st! Chomping at the bit but next month will go to Siem Reap!
      Last edited by Beerislife; Jan 09, 2020, 12:12 AM.
      Constant change is here to stay!

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        #18
        I re installed my system and found that I still cannot enter my preferred language. Seems this is broken.

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          #19
          got issues with language and regional settings as well. I live in Sweden and need the correct regional settings for date, number etc but want my system communicate in english with me. I went into kde system settings and was pleased to see that there is an option for en_SE which sounds perfect. Unfortunately something is messed up since e.g.

          libreoffice can't open files with special characters like öåä in the filename anymore.
          locale returns this
          Code:
          $ 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_SE.UTF-8
          LANGUAGE=en_US
          LC_CTYPE="en_SE.UTF-8"
          LC_NUMERIC=en_SE.UTF-8
          LC_TIME=en_SE.UTF-8
          LC_COLLATE=en_SE.UTF-8
          LC_MONETARY=en_SE.UTF-8
          LC_MESSAGES="en_SE.UTF-8"
          LC_PAPER=sv_SE.UTF-8
          LC_NAME=sv_SE.UTF-8
          LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.UTF-8
          LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.UTF-8
          LC_MEASUREMENT=en_SE.UTF-8
          LC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.UTF-8
          LC_ALL=
          /etc/locale.gen only has en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8 active, en_SE does not exist. Still locale-gen results in creating all kinds of stuff that I don't want.
          Code:
          # locale-gen
          Generating locales (this might take a while)...
          en_AG.UTF-8...
          
          done
          en_AU.UTF-8... done
          en_BW.UTF-8... done
          en_CA.UTF-8... done
          en_DK.UTF-8... done
          en_GB.UTF-8... done
          en_HK.UTF-8... done
          en_IE.UTF-8... done
          en_IL.UTF-8... done
          en_IN.UTF-8... done
          en_NG.UTF-8...
          
          done
          en_NZ.UTF-8... done
          en_PH.UTF-8... done
          en_SG.UTF-8... done
          en_US.UTF-8... done
          en_ZA.UTF-8... done
          en_ZM.UTF-8... done
          en_ZW.UTF-8... done
          sv_FI.UTF-8... done
          sv_SE.UTF-8... done
          Generation complete.
          Now I'm utterly confused and beg for some guidance.

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            #20
            Originally posted by shag00 View Post
            And what is the difference in these 2 settings?
            LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
            LANGUAGE=en_US
            From the Internet ~
            "The only difference between en_US and en_US.utf8 is that the former uses ISO-8859-1 for a character set, while the latter uses UTF-8. Prefer UTF-8. The only difference in these is in what characters they are capable of representing. ISO-8859-1 represents characters common to many Americans (the English alphabet, plus a few letters with accents), whereas UTF-8 encodes all of Unicode, and thus, just about any language you can think of. UTF-8, today, is a defacto standard encoding for text. (Which is why you should prefer it.)" ~ Abraham Lincoln
            "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
            – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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              #21
              Originally posted by shag00 View Post
              And what is the difference in these 2 settings?
              LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
              LANGUAGE=en_US
              See this answer on superuser.com
              Regards, John Little

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                #22
                Originally posted by jlittle View Post
                Which takes us to https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext...GUAGE-variable which is somewhat less than crystal clear to your average Joe, especially the bit about not setting locale to C, whatever C is. It seems like this may be a common problem we face with electronic interfaces these days, the distributors attempt to make things easier but just create chaos. If they just went back to the old days where you input this stuff manually, or at least had an option to, you would get what you want. These automatic procedures work well if you are part of the 90-95% but are a disaster if you are not.

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                  #23
                  https://gist.github.com/se35710/ac3b...864f37443f9f46

                  found this and could solve my issue...

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