Questions tagged [language]
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Popup: Language support is incomplete – what packages does it want to install?
I'm using Kubuntu 17.10. Always after login, the notification below pops up. When I click it, it asks for my password and wants to install or remove packages – but without telling me what packages. I already searched the internet but couldn't find a…
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Debian 9: How to set English language with German Locale?
I want to use English language with German locale settings.
Right now my system runs with the following setup (configured during installation procedure in Debian Expert Installer):
Language: English - English (Default)
Country, territory or area:…
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Set data structure equivalent in bash shell?
Is there a data structure for bash scripts that can be used similar to how something like a java.util.Set would be used? Basically a collection that even if you add a duplicate element to it won't allow you to add two of the same element?
I'm not…
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How can I get Japanese characters to show properly in Firefox on Arch?
I am running Firefox 52.0.2 on Arch Linux and although on the system (e.g.: in Nautilus) I have Japanese characters showing fine, in Firefox they are unreadable because all that is shown for them is this:
This will be because I do not have the font…
user103789
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Chinese characters in wine
I am using Wine to use a Windows interface to WeChat in Linux. WeChat is a popular messaging program in China, similar to WhatsApp.
Many of my messages are in Chinese. Unfortunately, they are not displayed properly. I think I don't have the font.…
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Ubuntu 20.04 super key doesn't work with different language input
When I have my typing language set to anything other than English, Super key doesn't work. I can't use any keyboard shortcut that contains Super in it, and I also can't press AltShift every time as I got more than two input languages.
I think that…
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Debian 9.9: Can I set up a multi-lingual, multi-user system with locale?
In Debian I have set up multiple users. The OS was installed in English.
Next I ran
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locale and selected multiple other languages (such as German, Spanish, and French) and installed them.
I then created the new users all as…
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Which Chinese locales are needed to avoid missing or mismatched characters?
Arch Linux lists the following different Chinese locales in /etc/locale.gen:
#zh_CN.GB18030 GB18030
#zh_CN.GBK GBK
#zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8
#zh_CN GB2312
#zh_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8
#zh_HK BIG5-HKSCS
#zh_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8
#zh_SG.GBK GBK
#zh_SG GB2312
#zh_TW.EUC-TW…
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Debian Installation: What does "Country to base default locale settings on" affect?
Let's assume I want to install Debian in English language.
Sure, I will select Language: English - English (default) for that.
In a next step I can choose my Country, territory or area (to set the correct timezone I guess).
In a third step I have…
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Polytonic Greek keyboard not working as described in keymap
On my Debian machine (using Gnome for X), I have it set up to switch between English (US) and Greek (Polytonic) for the keyboards. In the Greek keymap file (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr), I have the lines
partial alphanumeric_keys…
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Why is a charset included with the locale?
As I understand it POSIX says that a locale definition must include a type of character encoding like UTF-8. Locale is commonly implemented as shell environment variables.
Why aren't these two concepts separated? Now for example we have multiple…
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Change keyboard layout and input language in a terminal on Ubuntu Droplet in Digital Ocean (English, Russian, Japanese)
I spun up a Digital Ocean Ubuntu Droplet and I ssh to that machine from both my home and office.
I need to type in English, Russian and Japanese from a Mac Japanese keyboard from home and a US 106 keyboard in the office.
Questions:
How do I change…
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LibreOffice install language package from official dnf-repositories
If I check under
tools > options > Language Settings > Languages > Language of > User interface:
it only contains "Default - English (USA)" and "English (USA)", however I would like to change to "German (Germany)" or "Deutsch (Deutschland)"
So I…
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Unicode overwriting keyboard shortcuts
I needed to input some Russian characters so used setxkbmap ru. To switch back I used setxkbmap gb (from awkwardly compounding previous commands from history - be warned...)
But now when I use shortcuts like Ctrl + Shift + U in every program an…
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How to list the available languages for a man page?
I have just found out that it is possible to display man pages in different laguages using the -L option (e.g. man -L fr man shows a man page in French). However, when a language is not available, an American English man page is usually shown. I do…
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