Hi Boris, very useful reply, many thanks.
Am Sonntag, 3. Januar 2021, 22:52:20 CET schrieb Boris Pek: > Hi, > > > I installed a new bullseye system. I added some accounts and changed the > > locale (regional settings) to German. Worked well for > > > > - System settings > > - Application starter menu > > - Non-KDE Applications (e.g. firefox and libreoffice) > > > > Did not work for > > - control panel > > - all KDE Applications, e.g. > > -- kate > > -- kmail > > -- konsole > > -- ... > > > > Is this a bug or did I miss something? > > > > Any advice or hint is welcome. > > Please show output of commands: > > $ locale > $ locale -a antonia@aura:~$ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de:en_US LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= antonia@aura:~$ locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory C C.UTF-8 POSIX en_US.utf8 antonia@aura:~$ I did run root@aura:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales (this might take a while)... de_DE.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete. *** update-locale: Warning: LANGUAGE ("en_US:en") is not compatible with LANG (de_DE.UTF-8). Disabling it. root@aura:~# to add de_DE.utf8 root@aura:~# locale -a C C.UTF-8 de_DE.utf8 en_US.utf8 POSIX root@aura:~# > Have you tried to install special meta-packages task-german-desktop and > task-german-kde-desktop? No, but task-german-kde-desktop did not add anything anymore root@aura:/etc# apt-get install task-german-kde-desktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: task-german-kde-desktop 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/884 B of archives. After this operation, 6,144 B of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package task-german-kde-desktop. (Reading database ... 175044 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../task-german-kde-desktop_3.61_all.deb ... Unpacking task-german-kde-desktop (3.61) ... Setting up task-german-kde-desktop (3.61) ... root@aura:/etc# I think adding the locale de_DE.UTF-8 has fixed the issue. Is it expected that KDE applications are more sensitive to this than other applications? Does anybody know the definition of the LANGUAGE variable? Or what does LANGUAGE=de:en_US mean? Thanks again Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/