I had problems with certain nordic letters (åäö) in applications like Chrome and Steam. I set global locale to en_US.utf8 in /etc/locale.conf (I like having english language but I still type in swedish) but those letters could not be typed in those applications. If I started them with for example 'export LANG=en_US.utf8' it worked. After some digging I found that, when setting the language in KDE Systemsettings, a script is created in ~/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh, containing for example the line 'export LANG=en_US'. I found that if I manually edit that line to say instead 'export LANG=en_US.utf8', everything works as expected. So I guess that systemsettings should be changed to also include the charset in the export line.
This has AFAIK been resolved with commits c79d60536d6af6f59ef0511e8d837e06a7ee0336 and 8ad16d2211dbdbde8e1125c0822953b6dae0293a by Lukas Tinkl (so, either git master, or Plasma/5.0 branch have it already). (the repo in question is kde:plasma-desktop)
I just compiled systemsettings5 and all its dependencies from git, and I see no change. Output when running systemsettings5 in terminal: QWidget::setWindowModified: The window title does not contain a '[*]' placeholder Got configs "knotifications5/kde.notifyrc" "kde.notifyrc" Got groups () Got notification " "messageInformation" " with actions: "" Wrote script: "/home/oscar/.config/plasma-locale-settings.sh" "# Generated script, do not edit # Exports language-format specific env vars from startkde. # This script has been generated from kcmshell5 formats. # It will automatically be overwritten from there. export LANG=sv_SE export LC_NUMERIC=C export LC_TIME=C export LC_MONETARY=C export LC_MEASUREMENT=C export LC_COLLATE=C export LANGUAGE=en_US " Problem persists. Did I miss something? Do I need to build the entire plasma-desktop from git?
I used this PKGBUILD from Arch Linux AUR to build it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sy/systemsettings-git/PKGBUILD
(In reply to klavkalashj from comment #2) > Problem persists. Did I miss something? Do I need to build the entire > plasma-desktop from git? Only plasma-desktop repository (and Plasma/5.0 branch will do)
Ok so I just compiled the entire plasma-desktop and systemsettings from the repo you mentioned, and it still is not working. I think the patch does not work...
Are you still seeing this issue in Plasma 5?
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