Perl Locale Warning

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Hello, I’ve already read and tired other forums posts but with no success so I am asking for help.
I ran inxi -Fazy to make another post and I’ve noticed this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_ADDRESS = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "C",
        LC_MONETARY = "en_150.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").

Then I followed other posts and went to .config/plasma-localerc and this is the content

[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=C
LC_MONETARY=en_150.UTF-8

Then I also went to /etc/locale.gen and I have

# Locales enabled by Calamares
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8

At the bottom. I also used locale-gen but the warning persists. Am I missing something?
I notice the Language is " " in the warning, but everything looks set fine to me…
Also this showed up after yesterday’s update I think.

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What does locale output (just to be sure) ?

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~ >>> 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=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_150.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=C
LC_IDENTIFICATION=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
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And

cat /etc/locale.conf
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~ >>> cat /etc/locale.conf                                                          
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8
~ >>>
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LANGUAGE is a predefinded fallback language - if present - it will be used when primary LANG is missing

This looks like something added by plasma locale manager - but it is not in your /etc/locale.gen - thus not generated - which triggers the message.

And you can not generate it because it is not existing in locale.gen.

I suggest you clear the content of plasma-localerc from

To be

[Formats]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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Will try asap when home! Thanks for the tip. Will give feedback.

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Done this, and another locale-gen, but warning persists.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_ADDRESS = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "C",
        LC_MONETARY = "en_150.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "it_IT.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").

:frowning:

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Where did you set the en_150? This doesn’t exist.

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I never ever touched anything about this stuff, honestly. There are the values I found out one day.

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  • logout of plasma
  • switch to TTY
  • login as root
  • execute
     localectl set-locale it_IT.UTF-8

If you want english as your system language - edit /etc/locale.conf and set the following

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Save the file and reboot the system

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I’ll lookup how to enter TTY and try that.
editing locale.conf has to be done after 1st step right? Because rn its already set that way

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Update: just ran inxi -Fazy and warning doesn’t appear anymore… lol?

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