The Arch Wiki page on 'locale' - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/locale - seems to be very relevant here since it deals with systemd as well, and calls out where KDE Plasma looks for a file that can override locales once the desktop environment is loaded. Perhaps localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8 may be a good starting point, along with going to your Plasma Region & Language settings and checking that they are set as you wish? I don't know if this is necessarily "correct" per se, but I have no issues with character display that I can tell, and here's my locale output: [username@hostname]:~> 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= Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, August 20th, 2023 at 9:17 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
This arose because I recently have been seeing unexpected characters replacing box drawing characters in MC and various utility output, e.g.
systemd-analyze critical-chain
# set | grep LC_ | wc -m 1950 # set | grep LC_ makes what amounts to a lot of litter, apparently including few or no line feeds.
On a vtty login: # locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= #
In Plasma in XTerm or Konsole: # locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE=POSIX LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= #
1-why the difference?
2-is there a "correct" set of values for someone who reads, writes and understands only English?
3-Do root's default values normally differ from other users?
4-what initializes the values?
5-what's an ideal or optimal way to deviate from any of the defaults: A: per user? B: globally? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science.
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