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Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

04 July 2024, 15:54:54

How do I fix?
The fixes I find assume systemd

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #1 – 04 July 2024, 16:39:09

A bit of context might help.

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #2 – 04 July 2024, 16:45:08

when running octopi update

sudo /usr/lib/octopi/octphelper -ts
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual

When running...

lxqt-openssh-askpass
Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.

Is that enough context?

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #3 – 04 July 2024, 18:50:45

Quote from: n00b – on 04 July 2024, 16:45:08

Is that enough context?

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #4 – 04 July 2024, 20:08:34

Check /etc/locale.gen file:

Quote

# Configuration file for locale-gen
#
# lists of locales that are to be generated by the locale-gen command.
#
# Each line is of the form:
#

[...]

#
# A list of supported locales is given in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
# and is included in this file. Uncomment the needed locales below.

Do you know to how uncomment them right?

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #5 – 05 July 2024, 16:25:41

Quote from: gripped – on 04 July 2024, 16:39:09

A bit of context might help.

RTFM:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
https://dcodesnippet.com/a-utf-8-locale-is-required-got-ansi_x3-4-1968/

Notice:

UTF-8 encodes characters with a variable number of bytes. A Unicode character is encoded in 1 to 4 bytes. The code points 0 to 127, which correspond to the ASCII character set, are encoded in one byte, whereby the most significant bit is always 0. The eighth bit can be used to introduce a longer Unicode character that extends over 2, 3 or 4 bytes. This is the most efficient use of memory space for fonts based on the Latin alphabet.

Apart from that, how about:

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locale -a

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #6 – 10 July 2024, 17:58:16

Quote from: kiblaster – on 04 July 2024, 20:08:34

Check /etc/locale.gen file:
Do you know to how uncomment them right?

/etc/locale.gen:
[...]
[/quote]

in /etc/locale.gen:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
was uncommented already

Quote from: lq – on 05 July 2024, 16:25:41

Quote from: gripped – on 04 July 2024, 16:39:09
A bit of context might help.

RTFM:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
https://dcodesnippet.com/a-utf-8-locale-is-required-got-ansi_x3-4-1968/

Notice:

UTF-8 encodes characters with a variable number of bytes. A Unicode character is encoded in 1 to 4 bytes. The code points 0 to 127, which correspond to the ASCII character set, are encoded in one byte, whereby the most significant bit is always 0. The eighth bit can be used to introduce a longer Unicode character that extends over 2, 3 or 4 bytes. This is the most efficient use of memory space for fonts based on the Latin alphabet.

Apart from that, how about:

Code: [Select]
locale -a

locale -a:
C
C.utf8
POSIX
en_US.utf8

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #7 – 22 July 2024, 18:39:22

any thoughts?

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #8 – 22 July 2024, 20:02:16

Check your $LANG.

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echo $LANG

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #9 – 23 July 2024, 22:31:19

echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #10 – 24 July 2024, 09:26:05

And the output of

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locale

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #11 – 24 July 2024, 22:07:43

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

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #12 – 25 July 2024, 10:07:27

I guess that's the problem. Check your /etc/locale.conf.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#Variables

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #13 – 25 July 2024, 17:47:43

/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

Re: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is not UTF-8

Reply #14 – 25 July 2024, 18:07:11

Something is redefining these variables. You should find out what. Check your startup scripts, services, shell init files and so on.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables#Defining_variables