manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

Question

I just installed terminator terminal emulator on my linux mint. for some reason I don't understand, it sets my password to some of the locale options. I've tried several things but they only offer a temporary fix. each time I open the terminal, it resets the locale options to my password.

LANG=koldenod19*
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="mypassword"
LC_NUMERIC=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_TIME="mypassword"
LC_COLLATE="mypassword"
LC_MONETARY=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="mypassword"
LC_PAPER=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=om_KE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

I've tried using sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and export LC_ALL="eo_US.utf8" and the problem still persists.

Spermogonium

This worked for me: enter link description here – Indigoid

Answer 1

Try this https://gist.github.com/SimonSun1988/2ef7db45e46b889783647d941ec15e4d

sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

and in file /etc/default/locale add line LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" and relogin to your server.

Goodygoody

WHat's the name of the YUM package ? (running Amazon-linux 2, cannot find locale-gen) – Diplomatics

@CyrilDuchon-Doris try just add line LC_ALL... maybe it will work for you without any extra commands – Goodygoody

This works, though I still don't know what caused this issue in the first place, probably due to some encoding package that I installed or an upgrade to python ? – Vociferate

Something seems to be implied, but hasn't actually been confirmed... Do all the locale variables need to use an en_US or en_GB locale for these errors to go away? My LC_* variables are a mix of en_US and ms_MY, which is correct for me (American living in Malaysia), but I'm getting the same error. – Wessling

@Wessling just LC_ALL should be in locale file – Goodygoody

Answer 2

For CentOS this worked for me.

Add these lines to /etc/environment

LANG=en_US.utf-8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

Ziguard

This worked for me on AWS Amazon Linux AMI – Blowfly

Also on Debian Wheezy/Jessie – Ticktock

It works also on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa – Aubarta

Also worked for my Manjaro system. – Stokehole

Worked for me on debian 10 – Infidel

Worked on Arch Linux – Dissipation

Worked for me on Debian 11 – Ozonize

Answer 3

Edit your /etc/locale.gen then uncomment the following line:

en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8

Run:

sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
sudo update-locale en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

Verify it;

locale

You may get:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

And Done !!!

Transmit

Answer 4

If you encounter this issue and are working based on Docker.

Install locales first and then generate locale.

apt install locales
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Pelotas

Answer 5

This worked for me :

echo "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/environment
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Source

Indigoid

Answer 6

If you are having this problem on CentOS, follow this example because nothing else worked for me.

The command localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 fixes the problem, but may lead to another one:

[error] character map file UTF-8' not found: No such file or directory
default character map file ANSI_X3.4-1968' not found: No such file or directory.

Finally, executing yum -y install glibc-locale-source prior to localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 installs the missing files and changes back the locale.

Now locale reports again:

LANG=en_US

.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
(...)
LC_ALL=

Hope that helps someone out there.

Pappose

work for me on centos. – Obediah

Answer 7

RedHat: Change /etc/locale.conf to

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8

Gadgeteer

Answer 8

This answer is only relevant to KDE / Plasma:

Assuming that you still have these issues after the solutions shown in the top answers, you could look for a file located at ~/.config/plasma-localerc.

Plasma does store Locale Configurations here — but they would be better of in /etc/locale.conf.

Anyhow, after doing the rename / delete and doing a reboot, the error should no longer be present. You can run locale to get the detailed locale setup. Modify the /etc/locale.conf file as needed.

Solution Reference: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manpath-cant-set-locale/20099/8

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