2021-01-13 10:05:39 -05:00
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Using multiple languages in dom0
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Installing additional languages
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Switching languages is pretty easy in your domUs. However, in dom0, there's only
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English available after installation if no additional languages have been installed.
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To install more languages in dom0, use the following command:
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sudo qubes-dom0-update glibc-langpack-LANGUAGE
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Note that `LANGUAGE` should be a valid language code, e.g. `en` for English, `de` for
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German, `it` for Italian and so on.
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You can check which languages are available on your system using:
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localectl list-locales
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Setting a language globally
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If you want to switch your whole dom0 from English to some other language,
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edit the file `/etc/locale.conf` to include your language code for the `LANG=` value.
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For example, to change your dom0 to Italian, the file `/etc/locale.conf` should contain:
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LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
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~~~
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Important: Using some language other than English is not officially supported, i.e. you
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might still get a lot of English content which has not been translated to your desired language.
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Setting only some formats
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2021-01-13 10:09:25 -05:00
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If you just want to change some format specifiers, you can add the `LC_*` identifier
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in the same file, below the `LANG=` code. Avoid the `LC_ALL` identifier, because it overwrites
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all previous settings! For example, to use German time formats but still use the English
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language as default for anything else, you would write the following in `/etc/locale.conf`:
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LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
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~~~
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Those codes must be supported by your dom0 (check with `localectl list-locales`).
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After you finished editing, check your new setup with `localectl status`. You might need
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to logout and login back again to enable your changes in the environment (e.g. in the window
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manager or its applets).
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You might also want to inspect the changes introduced by adding/editing one `LC_*` rule
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in the config file. Use `locale -k $rule` for this purpose, e.g. `locale -k LC_TIME` to
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show the formats exported by the setting of the `LC_TIME`.
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If you see "broken characters" like `<60>` somewhere, check the encoding of the affected
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application. The default terminal emulator in dom0 does not use Unicode as default
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encoding and therefore has some problems when it's not adjusted accordingly.
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