I can't get rid of russian language in OS interface

George Hazan

2/21/23, 3:23 PM

I set up my kubuntu 21.04 with the English interface by default, cause I prefer the original version, but with russian regional settings (date, currency etc). As the result of some experiments I've got the following picture: English US is the only language installed, but the whole interface is in Russian here's a screenshot

Locale's output also contains only russian: $ locale

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Though contents of cat /etc/default/locale look correct

#  File generated by update-locale

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

# update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 doesn't help either.

What am I doing wrong?.. No scripts in my home directory set or change LANG variable.

WMBR, George Hazan

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21.04

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

2/21/23, 6:11 PM

1. Yes, some KDE specific configuration file in your `$HOME` has most likely been changed. 2. No, your `/etc/default/locale` is not correct either. In particular `LC_MESSAGES` is set to a Russian locale. 3. You messed it up through your experiments. Maybe some Kubuntu user can give you a hand. Or you should consider a re-install.

George Hazan

2/21/23, 6:53 PM

@mikewhatever yes, I can forcibly specify LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/environment, and it would help, but I wanted to solve this problem using UI tools, cause I hadn't issued any command-line calls to modify my locale.

George Hazan

2/21/23, 6:57 PM

@GunnarHjalmarsson 1. which concrete file might that be? 2. well, at least ssh-add gives me messages in English, but I'll try to make some additional observations 3. ok, I'll try to dig more recommendations from mikewhatever's article, there're some interesting ideas about locale files recreation. No, reinstall is not possible in my case

George Hazan

2/21/23, 7:11 PM

at least >sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales doesn't help me... The problem is evidently in the conflict between /etc/default/locale and locale's output, I just tested some remote Ubuntu installations at my servers, everything is ok there.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: I can't get rid of russian language in OS interface

TH: ฉันไม่สามารถกำจัดภาษารัสเซียในส่วนต่อประสานระบบปฏิบัติการได้

RO: Nu pot scăpa de limba rusă în interfața OS

RU: Не могу избавиться от русского языка в интерфейсе ОС

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