error when opening the K3b program: "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968"

[wpshooter]

I get this error message when opening K3b program on Hardy Herron Alpha 2 installation.

System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data projects.
Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools take care of this.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Please provide the output of "locale" (entered on a terminal/konsole).

[wpshooter (joverstreet1)]

It is as follows:

wpshooter@JRO-hardy-4:~$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

[Chirea Mircea (desolator)]

I have the same problem, and if K3b says it shouldn't then it's probably right. In the meantime I told it to shut up, as the CDs end up fine, readable in Ubuntu and Windows, so probably that doesn't matter much. And yes, I get the same output as wpshooter.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I don't think it's a bug in k3b: it only complains, which is considered to be good (as it may cause problems).

I think the real bug is that you have no locale configured. Or is this intentional?
What do you have in /etc/default/locale?

Chirea, are you using also Ubuntu Hardy?

[Chirea Mircea (desolator)]

I'm using Gutsy, but I've enabled backports and I'm pretty sure it has been backported.

"/etc/default/locale" has this: LANG="C"

[Jason Straight (jason-jeetkunedomaster)]

Gutsy here - no backports but I do have kde4 installed.

[wpshooter (joverstreet1)]

I am still getting this problem under Hardy Heron Alpha 4.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

With k3b on ubuntu amd64 hardy 8.04 Alpha 4, I also get the error/warning message "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968".

sander@sander-amd64-8:~$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
sander@sander-amd64-8:~$

sander@sander-amd64-8:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
sander@sander-amd64-8:~$

[BetinhoDJ (betinho-dj)]

This isn't a bug. This problem can be fixed just defining the correct locale on your system.
The locale command must return something like this...
[betinho@myhost ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
[betinho@myhost ~]$

[wpshooter (joverstreet1)]

It isn't a bug any longer because it looks like it has finally been fixed at Hardy Alpha 6.

But I think it was a bug prior to that point, because I have never had this problem on versions of Ubuntu prior to Hardy.

Unless I am wrong, I believe that all these locale setting parameters should be set during and by/part of the installation of the O/S. The users should not have to do this once the O/S is installed.

Thanks.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I'm marking this "Fix released", because it appears to have been fixed during the Hardy cycle.

Yes, a locale (other than "C") should get setup and it appears that this has been fixed now.
If you're still experiencing this bug, please try the solution provided at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-select-and-generate-locales-on-ubuntu.html (editing /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local) or install the required language-pack-XX-base package(s).

Please don't hesitate to re-open this bug, in case there's still a problem for you and/or report any other bugs you might find. Thank you.

[Martijn Brinkers (m-brinkers)]

I did a clean install of Hardy (realeased version) and experience similar problems.

For example running man:

martijn@mitm:/etc$ man ifconfig
man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

locale command returns

martijn@mitm:/etc$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I have reconfigured/reinstalled locale but that did not work.

[Martijn Brinkers (m-brinkers)]

installing "language-pack-en" seems to have fixed it. Somehow no language pack was installed.

[wpshooter (joverstreet1)]

Surely the installation of the "language-pack-en" should be a part of the O/S installation. I believe that is has always been on past versions of Ubuntu.

They need to fix this problem so that the installation is accomplished correctly during the O/S install. Therefore, seems to me that they need to redo the currently released final version of the Ubuntu ISO image. And not just for this problem but also for a HOST of others.

Thanks.

[tomcloyd (tomcloyd-comcast)]

Since the recent rash of updates for Kubuntu 8.10, I've been having the same problem. Installing the "language-pack-en" package fixed it. I trust that if this is something that needs fixing someone will notice. Hope so.

[yarly (ih8junkmai1)]

Same bug, same problem.. locale isn't set in Intrepid Ibex

Ubuntu 8.10
K3b 1.0.5

****@*******:~$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

[Didi Kohen (kohen-d)]

It's a problem if LC_ALL is undefined or defined as C

[peter godward (petergodward)]

So, how do I set up LC_ALL correctly?

[Didi Kohen (kohen-d)]

/etc/default/locale
Make sure it has a line:
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

or whatever is your locale...