Konsole terminal language is false

Sann · 5 June 2022 11:44

Introduction
Greetings everyone, I just moved from Ubuntu to Manjaro 21.2.6 (Qonos) yesterday.

So here’s the story, after I installed Manjaro on my laptop, I found that my Japanese songs that use Japanese fonts don’t exist in terminal. So I tried to enable line #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 on /etc/locale.gen and run sudo locale.gen but this doesn’t work, my fonts still didn’t show. Then I try to install ttf-sazanami and ttf-hanazono on pacman but still don’t works, however after I install noto-fonts-cjk use sudo pamac install noto-fonts-cjk it’s works. After that I remove the fonts sazanami and hazono wich I install before.

The problem
The problem is, when I run a command related to sudo, for example sudo --help in a normal terminal, it shows:

[sann@sann-x86-64 ~]$ sudo --help
sudo - 別のユーザーとしてコマンドを実行します

usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user] [command]
usage: sudo [-ABbEHknPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-ABknS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

オプション:
  -A, --askpass                 パスワード要求のために補助プログラムを使用する
  -b, --background              コマンドをバックグラウンドで実行する
  -B, --bell                    プロンプトと同時にベルを鳴らす
  -C, --close-from=num          num 以上のすべてのファイル記述子を閉じる
  -D, --chdir=directory         コマンド実行前に作業ディレクトリを変更する
  -E, --preserve-env            コマンドを実行する時にユーザーの環境変数を維持する
      --preserve-env=list       指定の環境変数を維持する
  -e, --edit                    コマンドを実行するのではなくファイルを編集する
  -g, --group=group             指定したグループ名またはグループIDでコマンドを実行する
  -H, --set-home                HOME 変数を変更先となるユーザーのホームディレクトリに設定する
  -h, --help                    このヘルプを表示して終了する
  -h, --host=host               host でコマンドを実行する(プラグインがサポートしている場合)
  -i, --login                   変更先のユーザーとしてログインシェルを実行する; コマンドを指定することもできます
  -K, --remove-timestamp        タイムスタンプファイルを完全に削除する
  -k, --reset-timestamp         無効なタイムスタンプファイルです
  -l, --list                    ユーザーの権限を一覧表示するまたは指定したコマンドについて確認する
                                ;長い表示にするには2回指定すること
  -n, --non-interactive         非対話モードで実行し、ユーザーに入力を求めない
  -P, --preserve-groups         グループベクトルを保護する (変更先のユーザーのものに設定しない)
  -p, --prompt=prompt           指定したパスワードプロンプトを使用する
  -R, --chroot=directory        コマンド実行前にルートディレクトリを変更する
  -S, --stdin                   標準入力からパスワードを読み込む
  -s, --shell                   変更先のユーザーとしてシェルを実行する; コマンドを指定することもできます
  -T, --command-timeout=timeout 指定した制限時間でコマンドの実行を中止する
  -U, --other-user=user         リストモードで、ユーザーの権限を表示する
  -u, --user=user               指定したユーザー名またはユーザーIDでコマンドを実行する (またはファイルを編集する)
  -V, --version                 バージョン情報を表示して終了する
  -v, --validate                コマンドを実行せずにユーザーのタイムスタンプを更新する
  --                            コマンドライン引数の処理を終了する

However, when I run sudo --help on a tty terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2), it shows normal output:

[sann@sann-x86-64 ~]$ sudo --help 
sudo - execute a command as another user

usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user] [command]
usage: sudo [-ABbEHknPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-ABknS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

Options:
  -A, --askpass                 use a helper program for password prompting
  -b, --background              run command in the background
  -B, --bell                    ring bell when prompting
  -C, --close-from=num          close all file descriptors >= num
  -D, --chdir=directory         change the working directory before running command
  -E, --preserve-env            preserve user environment when running command
      --preserve-env=list       preserve specific environment variables
  -e, --edit                    edit files instead of running a command
  -g, --group=group             run command as the specified group name or ID
  -H, --set-home                set HOME variable to target user's home dir
  -h, --help                    display help message and exit
  -h, --host=host               run command on host (if supported by plugin)
  -i, --login                   run login shell as the target user; a command may also be specified
  -K, --remove-timestamp        remove timestamp file completely
  -k, --reset-timestamp         invalidate timestamp file
  -l, --list                    list user's privileges or check a specific command; use twice for longer format
  -n, --non-interactive         non-interactive mode, no prompts are used
  -P, --preserve-groups         preserve group vector instead of setting to target's
  -p, --prompt=prompt           use the specified password prompt
  -R, --chroot=directory        change the root directory before running command
  -S, --stdin                   read password from standard input
  -s, --shell                   run shell as the target user; a command may also be specified
  -T, --command-timeout=timeout terminate command after the specified time limit
  -U, --other-user=user         in list mode, display privileges for user
  -u, --user=user               run command (or edit file) as specified user name or ID
  -V, --version                 display version information and exit
  -v, --validate                update user's timestamp without running a command
  --                            stop processing command line arguments

Conclusion
So how to fix it, so that normal terminal language can be normal like the one in the tty terminal output?, Because after I translated it, it was the real Japanese language text.

I have tried deleting the line ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 again by add # on /etc/locale.gen and run sudo locale-gen, but doesn’t take effects. Btw I’m Indonesian and use Indonesian language.

[sann@sann-x86-64 ~]$ locale
LANG=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="id_ID.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_TIME=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="id_ID.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="id_ID.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_NAME=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=id_ID.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Mirdarthos · 5 June 2022 11:57

#Hi @Sann, and welcome!

Please post the output of:

localectl list-locales

As well as:

sudo localectl list-locales

and

echo $LANGUAGE

While I might not be able to help you, I suspect it will be necessary and/or helpful to anyone trying to be of assistance.

Edit:

Please also see:

Edit 2:

I believe you’d also find this handy:

Aragorn · 5 June 2022 12:08

Sann · 5 June 2022 13:08

[SOLVED]
I found that this is a terminal issue, not a language or locale issue.

It can be proved when I try to run the command sudo --help on each different terminal, most of them give english output except konsole, and also when I run echo $LANGUAGE it’s give me output id:ja. It can be concluded that the problem here is konsole (Application).

How to Solve:

I open my konsole apps, then click the settings, and it show:
I can’t send link, so I send:
https://imgur.com/VdUIbTY
Then I clicked on the option with the Japanese text
https://imgur.com/yl4tKL9
Next, I removed the “Bahasa alternatif” (alternative language), by clicking “Buang” (remove), and finally the problem is done.

Thanks to my friends who are on this forum, and trying to help me.
I so appreciate it, even if it doesn’t help much. But, at least it gave me a hint

system · 8 June 2022 03:08

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