Change whole Kubuntu distribution from UTF-8 to iso8859-15

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Hi Alexander,

on Debian this would be "dpkg-reconfigure locales". So I would suspect that "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" should do.
I am not at my Ubuntu box right now, so I cannot check. But give it a try.

Oliver

I know this command, and in another Debian-based distribution it at least did part (not all!) of the job. But on my Kubuntu 7.10, it just regenerates the charsets which are already installed, I do not get the chance to select any options like I remember from another distribution. No interactivity - no changes.

Hallo Alexander

Yes, I just tried that, too - and you are right. It's not interactive, and instead it creates all locales for all other languages I do not need.
Does not exactly look like this change in Ubuntu fixed a bug in Debian or glibc here...
But it's all a matter of viewpoint:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocalesThatDontSuck

Try this:
locale-gen de_DE@euro

This is the belocs locale-gen, which is used by Ubuntu. It works differently than the "standard" locale-gen.
Maybe you want to read the manpage for locale-gen and don't just rely on my words ;-)

Best regards

Oliver

Well, actually, I already have ISO-8859-15 running already, but I really
do not remember which of the twenty web pages I read and the different
things I tried really did the trick. I would really like to know how to
do it right. As it took me so long, I think I won't experiment any more
so as to avoid breaking the whole thing again. I also tried locale-gen,
I guess, but I cannot say for sure. What I do know, though, is that
accessing an NTFS partition now shows special characters like German
umlauts correctly in terminal windows and MC, but wrong in KDE GUI apps
like Dolphin. There does not seem to be a way to get everything working,
but I guess that is another story. Linux is great, but hey - there are
some thing which are definitely easier under Windows...

Hi Alexander

I don't use kde that often, but I remeber that a couple of years ago I had a problem with a kde app that did not start with the system wide locale, even though I had both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment set to my new locale ...
Maybe there is a locale setting in kde that is being sourced by kde programs.
I just changed the locale setting for that program explicitely. I changed the menu entry for that program form <program> to
env locale de_DE <program>

Best regards from the North

Oliver