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add locale en_DE hint to arch linux page

Thomas Buck 4 years ago
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 sudo systemctl enable linux-modules-cleanup
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+One other small thing I noticed: in the KDE system settings GUI I could set my language to English and my localization settings regarding Currency, Dates, etc. to German.
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+This resulted in a locale-setting of "en_DE" which does not actually exist, so some programs complain.
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+To be able to properly set this locale in '/etc/locale.gen' and create it with 'sudo locale-gen', first run this command:
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+<pre class="sh_sh">
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+sudo ln -s /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_DE
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+</pre>
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 Of course this project is forever ongoing.
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 In the future, I'm planning to properly use the other harddisks in my machine, as I'm currently only utilizing the NVMe SSD in there.
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 For this, I want to combine them all, probably with some kind of RAID, using LVM.

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