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I know this question has been asked before but none of the answers worked out for me.

I use Arch Linux and KDE with the linux-zen kernel and I have set my locale to en_US.utf-8.

Whenever I open Konsole I get:

bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf-8)

How can I fix this?

Here is my /etc/environment:

#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#

LANG=en_US.utf-8
LC_ALL=C

I have also set LC_ALL to C in my .bashrc.

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    If you are using Arch (and not a derivative distribution, which wouldn't be guaranteed to be configured the same way), don't forget the Arch Wiki, which is IMO quite clear on how to deal with locales. Commented Oct 17, 2021 at 11:09

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The file /etc/enviroment has nothing to do with system locale and you have to edit LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8. LC_ALL=C was back in the days but you using a rolling release.

When using sysvinit or openrc or something similar ...

your locales are created with locale-gen and /etc/locale.gen then passed to /etc/locale.conf and /etc/env.d/02locale

Here is an example ...

[~] cat /etc/locale.gen 

C.UTF8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8

[~] cat /etc/locale.conf 
# Configuration file for eselect
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"

[~] cat /etc/env.d/02locale 
# Configuration file for eselect
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"

[~] ls -l /etc/env.d/02locale 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14  1. Aug 20:10 /etc/env.d/02locale -> ../locale.conf

Verify that the selected locales are available by running locale -a and after availability is verified you can run source /etc/profile to update your system on the fly.

Note: locale will be saved to /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive and can be checked via localedef --list-archive.

When using systemd ...

  1. Get a list of available locales with localectl list-locales.
  2. Set the desired locale via localectl set-locale LANG=de_DE.utf8 and localectl set-locale LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8 if needed.
  3. Check result with localectl.
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  • env-update seems to be a Gentoo-specific script and is not used in Arch Linux. Commented Oct 17, 2021 at 13:52
  • oops, thx for the advice. I edited my post. Commented Oct 17, 2021 at 17:04
  • For some reason, it just went away but I'm sure this would work too! Commented Oct 24, 2021 at 9:46

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