Odd locale behaviour

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@eob2000

there is some file somewhere that is setting the language incorrectly but I cannot figure out where.

/etc/default/keyboard

Warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory

Check if you have /etc/default/keyboard and delete it or edit it properly. It is installed by Calamares installer, and is not suggested in Arch systems, but interferes when it exists. You may want to read this similar topic. If it still doesn’t work properly, please, create a new topic for your issue, since this one is already solved.