Hi! I recently updated on my Fedora 40 installation from KDE 6.0 to the brand-new and shining Plasma 6.1 and I like it so far. Except that 6.1 ate my language settings. It is now a mixture of German (my main language) and English. Specifically, things like “Show Panel Configuration” or “Log Out” (on the logout screen) are - well - in English, but should be in German.
I tried re-setting the locale etc. but no effect. Can it be that these strings just don’t have a translation yet, and so they fall back to English?
Hi, I have the same problem. It appeared after I updated KDE from version 6.0 to 6.1. The system I’m using is CachyOS (an Arch Linux derivative). Where I wrote “OK” is correct, that’s my language, and where I wrote “NO” is not my language. The language I use is Polish, so the format there should be “pl_PL”. The file /etc/sddm.conf is empty, and when I paste this:
Here it is. Looks correct - “Österreichisches Deutsch” is a version of German, the code is de_AT, I think. This is my first (preferred) language, with standard German and English as fallbacks.
Hello everyone, the same problem, but with Russian language. Part of the interface is in Russian, the other in English. There is only one language in the system. Below is a screenshot as an example.
It got even worse with some recent package updates. Now the digital clock widget displays the time in US format with AM/PM although my time formatting is set to German (24h).
Maybe caused by your LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" ?
At least with my LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" (and everything else as well set to German) while i can confirm the language mix as shown in the screenshots (for German) above the digital clock widget behaves correctly.
KDE / Qt the same (up to date) versions except Arch 6.6.37-1-lts Kernel here.
Did a little bit of testing, but no luck. I tried a fresh install of Fedora 40 (Standard edition, Gnome, with KDE installed afterwards) and Fedora 40 KDE Spin (KDE without Gnome), to see if this is some kind of Gnome / KDE installation clash (I had those in the past).
But the problem appears in both cases as soon as Plasma is updated to 6.1. Seems to be completely resistant to all later updates. These were clean installs on VMs, so no other software could interfere.
Have similar issue. After restarting DE using bash script (kquitapp5 plasmashell; kstart5 plasmashell) most of the text turns into English when system should be in Ukrainian.
Maybe this will be useful to people here as I was fighting with this issue for the past several days (in my case the main language was Polish and was SUPPOSED to be Polish but was mixed with English for frankly insane reason, as you will see):
Okay, solved the issue. You want to know what the problem was? Hold on to your seat, and if you are standing, please sit down.
Are you ready?
The cause of the mixed language was because I’ve set NUMBER FORMAT IN THE REGIONAL SETTINGS (yes, you’ve read this correctly) to something else than Polish, because I prefer thousands to be separated by spaces.
Here with German that seems not the case because I have set every “LC_” format without exception to de_DE.UTF-8 and en_GB and C only as LANGUAGE= fallback after de_DE and still a language mix.
I don’t have tried to remove all fallbacks, though.
But I can confirm that it only gets worse if one setting is altered.
Today, for a test, because someone asked about changing the Date-format in Dolphin I changed LC_TIME (through the KDE settings) to “English (Europe)” and that changed not only the time format but even more to English, as just one example at the whole logout/shutdown screen, with only the 30 second timer LC_TIME related at best, everything changed to English.
