Wrongly displayed date

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on panel I have date displayed in unknown language(supposedly hebrew), instead of being similar to what is written in settings in ukrainian
which fonts am I supposed to install (or maybe something else)
and yeah I asked llm about that and it recomended installing
sudo dnf install google-noto-fonts google-noto-sans-fonts google-noto-serif-fonts
but
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: google-noto-fonts
Package β€œgoogle-noto-sans-fonts-20250301-1.fc42.noarch” is already installed.
Package β€œgoogle-noto-serif-fonts-20250301-1.fc42.noarch” is already installed.

so what should I do to fix that
upd according to google translate and comment below its hebrew and it is also on my lock screen

upd 2 I have shut down pc and on the next day I have text displayed in Ukrainian as it should and no hebrew anymore. I guess shutting down and turning back on somehow fixed the issue

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I can’t answer most of your questions, but at least I can tell you that the date is either being displayed in Hebrew, or at least in a Hebrew font.

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Language displayed in British English, time displayed in Ukrainian, Aussie setting for something on the taskbar and the clocks in Hebrew. I have no idea how you managed all that, but it’s kinda like a dog that gets all tangled up in it’s own leash.

If you go to β€œlanguage” and β€œmodify”, what languages do you actually have installed there?

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British english
Π£ΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ—Π½ΡΡŒΠΊΠ° (Ukrainian)
American english

and yeah australian keyboard layout is just us one (I know this as I was editing keyboard layouts on linux 2 years ago but now I am having default australian which is just importing default us
// Keyboard layout for Australia.

// The default Australian layout is the same as the American.
default partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols β€œbasic” {
include β€œus(basic)”

name[Group1]= "English (Australia)";

};

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Yes, reboot or logout will apply the changes.

I wonder how this works actually. I hope no one minds if I note this here.

[olysius@fedora ~]$ bat .config/plasma-localerc
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       β”‚ File: .config/plasma-localerc
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   β”‚ [Formats]
   2   β”‚ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   3   β”‚
   4   β”‚ [Translations]
   5   β”‚ LANGUAGE=en_GB:uk

As you can see this is where locale is generated to for the KDE Plasma session. From what I understand if the settings in Region & Language are left untouched, it will take your locale defaults, a.k.a:

[olysius@fedora ~]$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
               LC_NUMERIC=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_TIME=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_MONETARY=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_PAPER=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_NAME=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_ADDRESS=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_TELEPHONE=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_MEASUREMENT=uk_UA.UTF-8
               LC_IDENTIFICATION=uk_UA.UTF-8

For some reason the defaults are not displayed properly in the GUI settings. It says Default for British English, but it’s all in Ukrainian except the language interface.

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Now, once you change and generate Language in Region & Language, this is what will happen:

[olysius@fedora ~]$ bat .config/plasma-localerc
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       β”‚ File: .config/plasma-localerc
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   β”‚ [Formats]
   2   β”‚ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   3   β”‚ LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
   4   β”‚ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
   5   β”‚ LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
   6   β”‚ LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
   7   β”‚ LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
   8   β”‚ LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
   9   β”‚ LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
  10   β”‚ LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
  11   β”‚
  12   β”‚ [Translations]
  13   β”‚ LANGUAGE=en_GB

System locale defaults are overwritten, the changes will take effect after restarting your Plasma session.

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By now you get the idea, but I still want to reply since I went ahead to boot into the liveiso to see how it works. Changing the language is done by re-entering the session.

With that said, It would be nice if we could select the locale before going into the live environment. The current how-to can confuse someone who doesn’t know what to expect.

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Me too, I reflected on my thought process and realised I hadn’t tried re-entering the live session before :grinning_face:

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