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I'm having trouble fixing my locale settings. A similar question has been posted earlier here:

How do I fix my locale issue?

But it proved unhelpful. My problem is not that the locale is not installed on my system, as most answers seem to suggest. Details:

$ locale-gen "nb_NO.UTF-8"
Generating locales...
  nb_NO.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
$ update-locale LC_ALL="nb_NO.UTF-8"
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = "en",
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_PAPER = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_ADDRESS = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_MONETARY = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_NUMERIC = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_TELEPHONE = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_TIME = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_NAME = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_NO.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I am guessing my problem is related to either KDE or having a different OS language than my local language (I want everything to be in english, but have norwegian keyboard settings, currency etc).

I think this problem arose after changing some settings in the system settings dialog a while back, bug?

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Yngvefaen
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  • Some more surfing revealed this question:

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/501181/how-to-change-fix-systems-locale-when-you-setup-in-a-language-not-official-in-y?rq=1

    which in turn seems to be related to this bug:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1322968

     – Yngvefaen Jan 13 '15 at 11:00

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I managed to temporarily fix the issue by changing the system language from American English to British English.

I did it via the KDE System Settings > Locale > Languages dialog. Amusingly, it displayed an error message saying that replacing the current language was not permitted, but in practice it was since the new settings were applied when I hit the "apply" button, and restarted the machine.

Leaving question open until bug is fixed. Current local output:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=nb_NO.UTF-8
Yngvefaen
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  • I'm a little curious about how you fixed it. Can you please show us the output of the locale command after having made that change? (Can mention that I too filed a related bug report a while ago.) – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jan 13 '15 at 13:43
  • Edited the answer. It does seem, however strange, that something "special" happens with en_US at the top there. In detail, in the GUI dialog I mentioned, I added british english to the right hand list, then removed american english from the right hand list, ignored the error msg, then apply and restart. – Yngvefaen Jan 13 '15 at 22:36
  • I would try sudo sed -i '/LC_ALL/d' /etc/default/locale (and reboot) to get rid of the LC_ALL entry. You should never set LC_ALL persistently on a desktop. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jan 14 '15 at 03:35