[SOLVED] After ArcolinuxB plasma installation, no accents

[rquin66]

I've installed ArcolinuxB plasma. Everything went fine (I got rid of the dark theme as soon as I could, although dark themes seem to be very popular nowadays).
My locale is LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8. My language, Catalan, uses some accented vowels à. é, è, í, ó, ò, ú together with ï and ü.
However, I can't write any accented vowel in Kate or the terminal (i.e to answer yes "Sí" to a question). I only get unaccented vowels.
How can this problem be solved? I have 9 more partitions in my hard drive with other linux distros installed, almost all of them with plasma, and this problem doesn't exist (except in Nobara linux).
Thanks all in advance,

[erikdubois]

Compare with the other distros.

Probably the choice of your language.

If there are other Arch Linux based systems on your other partitions then you can even compare better.

[rquin66]

Hi Eric and thanks for your response.

I have in my partitions the following distros (30GB dedicated to each):

• Opensuse Tumbleweed

• KDE Neon

• Ubuntu mate

• Nobara

• Ubuntu (gnome)

• Manjaro

• Arcolinux

• Endeavour OS

• Reborn OS

• Kubuntu

All of them, except Arcolinux and Nobara (and I checked Fedora has this flaw, too) admit accented vowels in kate and other editing applications.

I'll keep searching, and will inform you if I find a solution.

[fennec]

What is inside the file /etc/locale.conf ?

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=110050

Additionally, verify your $HOME/.config/plasma-localerc file is aligned correctly, perhaps compare this against a working system.

[rquin66]

Hi Fennec,

My /etc/locale.conf was OK, just the same as in y other linux partitions:

LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ca_ES.UTF-8

The problem was in $HOME/.config/plasma-localerc. When I installed the system, I chose "Valencian" as my dialectal variant of Catalan and this file contained these two lines:

[Formats]
LANG=ca_ES@Valencia

Changing the second line to the standard language:

LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8

... solved the problem.

Thanks very much!

P.D. In some cases I've noticed that, upon installation, Calamares does not format the /etc/locale.conf file well. The first line is set to Catalan but the others are a mix of Spanish and English. But well, that can be solved easily.

[erikdubois]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge back with us.

I am sure we can help more users with the information.