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**JoHubb** · Dec 11, 2022, 10:03 AM

Has no one any ideas?

**jlittle** · Dec 11, 2022, 01:36 PM

Originally posted by JoHubb View Post

Has no one any ideas?

An obvious way this would happen is a locale setting in the boot process. I suggest running locale in a konsole; it will show a list of environment variable names. Normally only LANG and maybe LANGUAGE are set, but others may be. If any are, and you don't like the setting, you can search for where they are being set. Files to check:

.bashrc
.profile
/etc/profile
/etc/environment
any file in ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env

**claydoh** · Dec 11, 2022, 02:43 PM

Don't discount the possibility of incomplete/broken/missing translations somehow, assuming that this is not a new phenomenon.

However, I don't see this specific string missing in apt's translations. Nor do I as of yet see it actually translated, so maybe I am looking in the wrong places?
Ex: https://translations.launchpad.net/u...w=untranslated

More squirrels and rabbit holes:
https://translations.launchpad.net/u.../+translations

**JoHubb** · Dec 12, 2022, 04:01 PM

Thanks to both.

I ran locale already but it didn't help much.

As far as I understand it, the :hu in the second line of output refers to the keyboard only, since the language is en_GB.

howard@Ksnow-White:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:hu
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=
howard@Ksnow-White:~$

I'll check those files next before diving into any rabbit holes...

**jlittle** · Dec 12, 2022, 07:38 PM

A couple of my neurons finally made contact, and I've recalled I've had a problem similar to yours. When I release upgraded to 20.04, in 2020, a lot of applications, including vim, started using French.

(I have only learned French at school, and I was at school a very long time ago). I tried a lot of fixes and only deleting "Français" from the language list got me back to English in all apps.

I suggest adding a new user, to see if the problem occurs for that user. If it does maybe a clean install would be a good idea. (Back in 2020, their were other problems as well, so did a clean install, alongside the upgraded focal in the same btrfs, and that took several weeks to completely reinstall and reconfigure everything, and I ended up regretting doing it; but as usual by the time the regrets set in I was committed to new approach.)

**JoHubb** · Dec 13, 2022, 02:29 PM

I added a new user. The problem went away. When I ran locale as the new user there was no reference to hu in the output.

When I added a Hungarian keyboard layout and ran locale again, there was no reference to hu in the output.

Now, for it!

Logging in as howard, the original user, I ran sudo apt update in konsole. Hungarian all gone!

I ran locale again:

howard@Ksnow-White:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US
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=
howard@Ksnow-White:~$

No reference to en_GB:hu as before.

Thanks for your help, jlittle. The problem seems to have gone away. I am not sure why or how...one of life's many mysteries.

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