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Questions tagged [i18n]

i18n, short for “internationalization”, means adapting software to handle multiple languages and other regional differences.

Internationalization, often abbreviated i18n (a numeronym), means adapting software to cope with multiple regions, letting the user select a preferred language and other options such as date and number formats. It is closely related to internationalization (l10n); see .

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Why is there no "Euro English" locale?

I used to use the somewhat whimsical en_DK.UTF-8 locale when installing a new system because that would produce (roughly) the locale results I wanted, even though I am not in Denmark. Measurements metric Sensible date and time formats, but day and…
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How can I change the language in chromium?

I've installed chromium, but it deeply sucks that it uses my mother tongue (german) in its UI and for websites by default. I want the english back, like firefox did. I'm using archlinux's default packages. I looked into the settings dialogs, but I…
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Why can't I type a g̃ the same way I type ñ?

My language, Guarani, uses G̃/g̃ to denote the nasalized velar approximant. I thought I'd be able to type it by combining a dead tilde with g, but this does not work. Why doesn't it, and how can I fix it? My main suspicion is that this has to do…
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Setting locale for user

I'd like to set a locale for my user different than system locale. By putting export LANG=en_US.utf8 in .bashrc I could do that for the shells, but still it's not working for applications not started via a shell (i.e. the desktop environment, LXDE,…
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Is there a utility like dspcat on Linux?

I use the following dspcat command on AIX and can dump message catalogs created with the gencat command: dspcat –g /u/is/bin/I18N/l/lib/libca/libcalifornia.117.cat >> /tmp/message.smc I have spent a good solid hour looking for hints on how to dump…
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Are the outputs of /proc/meminfo, /proc/cpuinfo etc always in English?

I am writing code that relies on the output of /proc/meminfo, /proc/cpuinfo etc. Are the file contents always in English? For example, will MemTotal in /proc/meminfo always be MemTotal in all locales?
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Fastest way to get an Euro symbol at a prompt?

First of all I'm working on a keyboard using a QWERTY layout. Now once in a while I need to get the Euro (€) symbol in my terminal (typically in a xterm). If I cut'n'paste the Euro symbol, it shows up fine in my xterms, which have their locale set…
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What is ANALYZE/CATALOG for Linux msginit binary message catalog?

VMS has an ANALYZE command that examines an item such as an executable image or an object file displaying information about its contents. Is there such a command for examining the output of msginit which is a binary message catalog file? Something…
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Valid values for LC_CTYPE?

I have found a number of questions on various forums where Mac users complain about locale errors when they log in to Linux systems over SSH which complain that the LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 setting is incorrect. In some more detail, the shell on MacOS seems…
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How to fix diacritics in PDF forms in Evince?

I happen to live in Czech Republic and we have such letters like ě, š, č, ť, etc in the alphabet and use them everywhere, including addresses. Today I was filling a PDF form in Evince and noticed that some of these letters either disappear or make…
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In Fedora, how do I select a proper Norwegian keyboard layout?

I just installed Fedora 19 in VirtualBox using an image from virtualboxes.org. However, I'm unable to select a proper Norwegian keyboard. When I open the keyboard layout, it shows an US layout. A Norwegian layout should have Æ, Ø, Å keys and a lot…
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How to change secondary font used by gnome terminal?

Some environment infos: Arch Linux KDE Plasma 5.10.4 GNOME Terminal 3.24.2 Using VTE version 0.48.3 +GNUTLS I set to use Ubuntu Mono Regular font in gnome terminal profile. And Latin characters do render nicely. The problem is I don't like the…
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Why non-ASCII characters are displayed using a question mark?

I'm working on an embedded linux distribution based on Yocto Morty. I have used an Ubuntu distribution to create the following two files: fòò.dàt bàr.dàt I have stored the files into a pendrive and connected the pendrive to my embedded system. I…
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How to get this collation in sort?

I need to set up command sort, so it is sorting lines into this order: Akira Kurosawa Al Ernest Garcia Alain Sarde Alan Ladd, Jr. Albert S. Ruddy Alberto Grimaldi Alfred Hitchcock Amanda Plummer Frank Pesce Fred Roos Fulvio Morsella Günter…
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Incorrect sorting according en_US.UTF-8

I'm seeing a weird behavior of the sort command when I sort by en_US.UTF-8. I'm trying to sort this file (LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 sort…
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