Partially localized KDE + damaged filenames after some locale changes

[Juhele]

Hi,
I tried to set my environment to use some English settings because of one program needed to control one measuring device (written probably in VB, runs ok using Wine). First I just changed date formats while retaining Czech Republic as country and Czech as preferred language. However, I was still unable to run the program so I temporarily set U.S. and just changed preferred lang. to Czech.

Unfortunately, after reboot, I have KDE partially in English (just a minor issue but also would like to solve it) and also damaged folder and filenames using national characters - see following screenshots:



On the other way, the system correctly displays existing files with filenames containing Czech characters from other sources and also the left Konqueror toolbar with Places is OK. Is there any way to repair the files and take back fully localized KDE without need to delete all KDE settings?

thanks much

[OneLine]

Earlier Kubuntu Forums - may or may not help:

- http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ot-Locale-quot
- http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ng-used-in-KDE

[Juhele]

solved :-)

thanks for hint,
I tried the command but received error message:

juhele@Latitude:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
[sudo] password for juhele: 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "cs:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "cs_CZ.ISO-8859-1"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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
Generating locales...
  cs_CZ.UTF-8... done
  en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZM.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
juhele@Latitude:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install language-pack-cs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqgis1.9.0 libqscintilla2-9 libqscintilla2-translations linux-headers-3.8.0-19 linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic
  linux-headers-3.8.0-21 linux-headers-3.8.0-21-generic linux-headers-3.8.0-22 linux-headers-3.8.0-22-generic
  linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic linux-image-3.8.0-21-generic linux-image-3.8.0-22-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.8.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-22-generic python-dateutil python-egenix-mxdatetime
  python-egenix-mxtools python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-data python-psycopg2 python-pyparsing python-qscintilla2 python-tz
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1980 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main language-pack-cs all 1:13.04+20130418 [1980 B]
Fetched 1980 B in 1s (1070 B/s)             
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "cs:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "cs_CZ.ISO-8859-1"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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
(Reading database ... 303697 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace language-pack-cs 1:13.04+20130418 (using .../language-pack-cs_1%3a13.04+20130418_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement language-pack-cs ...
Setting up language-pack-cs (1:13.04+20130418) ...
juhele@Latitude:~$

However, I found more info here and finally had success. I followed the advice to modify the file locale in:

/etc/default

from source containing only:

LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8"

to:

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

and after reboot everything is ok. :-)