are your locales borked?

[manyroads]

If you are experiencing problems with your system locales, this may help you out. It did me.

http://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/locales-repair/

[Jerry3904]

As opposed to using the "System Locales" tool in MX Tools?

[fehlix]

If you are experiencing problems with your system locales, this may help you out. It did me.

http://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/locales-repair/

Please ask how locales are handled with MX Linux, and perhaps have a look into the MX User manual, if you are going to advice how to deal with locale in MX Linux.
Also note "fixing" or re-setting locales might not be needed from user perspective, as s/he can always select the locale during login which stay sticky.
Thanks

[manyroads]

The System Locales in MX Tools did not work for me, for some reason. Yes, it makes me feel special. The above did. I have no idea why there was a difference.

[fehlix]

The System Locales in MX Tools did not work for me, for some reason. Yes, it makes me feel special. The above did. I have no idea why there was a difference.

Any idea what you made to your nice system to get it borked

[manyroads]

The System Locales in MX Tools did not work for me, for some reason. Yes, it makes me feel special. The above did. I have no idea why there was a difference.

Any idea what you made to your nice system to get it borked

I was trying to reduce useless fonts (my Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Georgian, Russian, Ukarinian, etc are all very weak.) Somehow that caused zim (wiki) which I rely on as a memory replacement to get python locales errors. This was the only thing that brought my zim (memory) back.

[turtlebay777]

What does borked mean?

[kmathern]

What does borked mean?

messed up / @#*!-ed up: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=borked

[jj1j1]

This vid by dolphin_oracle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbOYfl1K6wE ,at 5:56, states that if I'm a "one language kind of guy" I can remove all but my language. Sounds good to me, but how to determine which ones to remove? There are several check by default. Two of which start with en_US... which I assume means English_United States. Several others; ar_EG, be_BY, bg_BG are selected... Is there a chart that defines these so one can select/de select what's appropriate?
@dolphin_oracle; good video by the way

[fehlix]

Is there a chart that defines these so one can select/de select what's appropriate?

Yes. To get a chart of your current enabled locale you can run this from commandline:

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for L in $(locale -a); do printf "%-15s : %s\n" $L   "$(LANG=$L locale  title)"; done

it would show your current locale and description.
Here how it looks in my setup:

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ar_EG.utf8      : Arabic language locale for Egypt
be_BY.utf8      : Belarusian locale for Belarus
bg_BG.utf8      : Bulgarian locale for Bulgaria
C               : ISO/IEC 14652 i18n FDCC-set
ca_ES.utf8      : Catalan locale for Spain
cs_CZ.utf8      : Czech locale for the Czech Republic
C.UTF-8         : C locale
da_DK.utf8      : Danish locale for Denmark
de_CH.utf8      : German locale for Switzerland
de_DE.utf8      : German locale for Germany
el_GR.utf8      : Greek locale for Greece
en_AU.utf8      : English locale for Australia
en_CA.utf8      : English locale for Canada
en_GB.utf8      : English locale for Britain
en_IE.utf8      : English locale for Ireland
en_NZ.utf8      : English locale for New Zealand
en_US           : English locale for the USA
en_US.iso88591  : English locale for the USA
en_US.utf8      : English locale for the USA
es_AR.utf8      : Spanish locale for Argentina
es_BO.utf8      : Spanish locale for Bolivia
es_ES.utf8      : Spanish locale for Spain
es_MX.utf8      : Spanish locale for Mexico
es_NI.utf8      : Spanish locale for Nicaragua
es_PA.utf8      : Spanish locale for Panama
es_PE.utf8      : Spanish locale for Peru
es_US.utf8      : Spanish locale for the USA
es_VE.utf8      : Spanish locale for Venezuela
et_EE.utf8      : Estonian locale for Estonia
eu_ES.utf8      : Basque locale for Spain
fa_IR           : Persian locale for Iran
fa_IR.utf8      : Persian locale for Iran
fi_FI.utf8      : Finnish locale for Finland
fr_BE.utf8      : French locale for Belgium
fr_CA.utf8      : French locale for Canada
fr_CH.utf8      : French locale for Switzerland
fr_FR.utf8      : French locale for France
ga_IE.utf8      : Irish locale for Ireland
he_IL.utf8      : Hebrew locale for Israel
hr_HR.utf8      : Croatian locale for Croatia
hu_HU.utf8      : Hungarian locale for Hungary
is_IS.utf8      : Icelandic locale for Iceland
it_IT.utf8      : Italian locale for Italy
ja_JP.utf8      : Japanese language locale for Japan
ko_KR.utf8      : Korean locale for Republic of Korea
lt_LT.utf8      : Lithuanian locale for Lithuania
lv_LV.utf8      : Latvian locale for Latvia
mk_MK.utf8      : Macedonian locale for Macedonia
nb_NO.utf8      : Norwegian (Bokmal) locale for Norway
nl_BE.utf8      : Dutch locale for Belgium
nl_NL.utf8      : Dutch locale for the Netherlands
nn_NO.utf8      : Nynorsk language locale for Norway
pl_PL.utf8      : Polish locale for Poland
POSIX           : ISO/IEC 14652 i18n FDCC-set
pt_BR.utf8      : Portuguese locale for Brasil
pt_PT.utf8      : Portuguese locale for Portugal
ro_RO.utf8      : Romanian locale for Romania
ru_RU.utf8      : Russian locale for Russia
sk_SK.utf8      : Slovak locale for Slovak
sl_SI.utf8      : Slovenian locale for Slovenia
sq_AL.utf8      : Albanian language locale for Albania
sr_RS           : Serbian locale for Serbia
sr_RS.utf8      : Serbian locale for Serbia
sv_SE.utf8      : Swedish locale for Sweden
tr_TR.utf8      : Turkish locale for Turkey
uk_UA.utf8      : Ukrainian Language Locale for Ukraine
zh_CN.utf8      : Chinese locale for Peoples Republic of China
zh_TW.utf8      : Chinese locale for Taiwan R.O.C.