Something strange with my locale settings

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Here is my etc/locale.conf file:

cat locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

But you do locale command and you get this:

[mark@mark-optiplex9020 etc]$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Is the last entry supposed to end in an equals sign, or should something be in there?

I can probably retrieve an older copy of these files from my timeshift backups, but don’t want to do it blind.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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[jman@jman-virtualbox ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Matches what I have well. Seems normal.

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Everything seems to work but never seen those error messages before.

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You could create them manually to resolve this section:

mine for example exists in here:

[jman@jman-virtualbox ~]$ cd /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/
[jman@jman-virtualbox C.utf8]$ ls
LC_ADDRESS  LC_COLLATE  LC_CTYPE  LC_IDENTIFICATION  LC_MEASUREMENT  LC_MESSAGES  LC_MONETARY  LC_NAME  LC_NUMERIC  LC_PAPER  LC_TELEPHONE  LC_TIME

Although I will say I wasn’t able to locate the LC_ALL directory.

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I did find out that LC_ALl is supposed to stay blank, it’s for troubleshooting.

This link:

Update Mirrors (Arch) script not working in Welcome v3.41-2 - #10 by manuel seemed to point to the setting being commented out if a merge was done improperly. I found the same thing on my system, rebooted but its still there.

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Changed your earlier post to look more readable… :smile:

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Fixed. After running sudo locale gen it all came back. Uncommenting the entry in the locale gen file was the necessary step.

Locale is behaving fine now, no error messages:

[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=“en_US.UTF-8”
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

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