[SOLVED] I want to install the locale en_SE on openSUSE 15.1

gacl · 09-28-2019, 12:06 PM

Hello,

I want to install the locale en_SE on openSUSE 15.1. I use it in other devices but unfortunately it is not installed in this particular system

locale -a doesn't list it

It's not present in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ either

Where can I download this locale and how do I install it?

Thanks

Ser Olmy · 09-28-2019, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacl

locale -a doesn't list it

It's not present in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ either

That's because it's not a standard locale; it's English with various modifications to emulate the date format (and other settings) of a non-English (typically European) locale.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gacl

Where can I download this locale and how do I install it?

I can't say for sure, but there's a chance a highly advanced Google search might turn up something.

gacl · 09-28-2019, 02:12 PM

I did

Code:

sudo touch en_SE

in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and pasted the code from GitHub. However,

Code:

sudo locale-gen en_SE

gives

Code:

sudo: locale-gen: command not found

gacl · 09-28-2019, 02:28 PM

It seems

Code:

sudo localedef -i en_SE en_SE

is the right command. I think I'll have to log out for this to work...

gacl · 09-28-2019, 03:34 PM

With the last command all accented characters were replaced with question marks in Konsole. The following command does work:

Code:

sudo localedef -i en_SE -f UTF-8 en_SE

gacl · 10-04-2019, 05:38 PM

One more thing: I tried this with my other computer and it didn't work. There were no locales or maps available, or even an i18n directory, so when I ran localedef all I got was errors. I solved this by installing glibc-i18ndata