Problem with language settings

cls567 · 04-16-2017, 08:11 AM

Hello! Some text in menus appear in something that looks like Russian, not sure about that. Nautilus File Manager for example, some menus in Yast as well. I'm using Gecko Linux, rolling release. Any way to correct this?

hydrurga · 04-17-2017, 05:24 AM

Hi, cls567, and welcome to LQ.

Can you please paste the output from the locale command.

Also, can you let us know which distro (and version) and desktop environment you are using.

cls567 · 04-17-2017, 06:40 AM

Hi! I use Gecko Linux, xfce, and it's the rolling release

locale
LANG=sv_SE.utf8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NAME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ALL=

hydrurga · 04-17-2017, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cls567

Hi! I use Gecko Linux, xfce, and it's the rolling release

locale
LANG=sv_SE.utf8
LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.utf8"
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.utf8
LC_NAME=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=sv_SE.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=sv_SE.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sv_SE.utf8
LC_ALL=

Thanks. What I would suggest is that you edit /etc/default/locale to set/add LANGUAGE="sv:en", save the file, log out and log back in again.

I'm not quite sure what's going on but I think the system may be resorting to the Cyrillic language, probably Russian, as a fall-back if it's not finding the Swedish strings for a given text. The above will tell the system to fall back to English.

cls567 · 04-19-2017, 01:15 PM

OK! Thanks! I will try that out.