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Re: MGA v9 issue

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a) Note that you do not have to use sddm to bring up Plasma (the KDE
gui). SDDM tends to be a bit fragile I found. 
However this is not your problem so see below.
On 2026-01-04, Gilberto F da Silva <gfs1989@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Vincent Coen escreveu:
>> 
>> Hello All!
>> 
>> I recently (November or December) made a change to swap using UTF-8
>> to 8859-15 in my KDE environment, not that I noticed much of a
>> change when using Text editors or email readers (Thunderbird).
>> 
>> For some reason I pressed something or used the mouse some how and
>> the screen content would move left, right, up and down when moving
>> the mouse so thought a reboot would be in order.
>> 
>> Doing this and on the reboot I now get the following messages
>> appearing with NO kde running just the text facility via tty1
>> through tty6 :-
>> 
>> setfont ERROR loadunimap.c:261 kfont_load_unimap: unable to find
>> unimap:88 no such file or directory setfont ERROR loadunimap.c:261
>> kfont_load_unimap: unable to find unimap: 8859-15  no such file or
>> directory FAILED: Failed to start clanav-clamonacc.service
>> 
>> As I would like to continue to use the KDE gui how do I fix this?
>> 
>> I am happy to switch back to using UTF-8 if needed and live with
>> the odd characters appearing from time to time.
>> 
>> Note that when I switched I did NOT noticed that any new packages
>> was installed.
>> 
>> Chapter and verse please as I am not familiar of using the Text
>> interface as against using the kde set up processes.
>> 
>> All updates are applied including from the tainted mirrors.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Vincent
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
> 	Gemini say:
>
> **Subject: Re: Issues after switching from UTF-8 to 8859-15**
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> The errors you are seeing occur because modern Linux distributions and
> KDE are designed to work natively with **UTF-8**. When you switched to
> ISO 8859-15, the system lost the ability to map fonts and handle
> certain services correctly, preventing the GUI from starting.
>
> Since you are at the text prompt (TTY), here is how you can revert to
> UTF-8 "chapter and verse":
>
> 1. **Log in**: At the `tty` prompt, type your username and press
> Enter, then type your password.

You can log in as root instead of user. Then You woud not have to use
sudo in the below ( which would be useless if you had not set up the
sudo configuration to allow your particular username)

Note that mageia does NOT automatically enroll you in sudo, so unless
you explicitly edited /etc/sudoers file. 
and for example put your username into the /etc/groups file for the 
wheel group, and edited the sudoers file to allow the wheel group to run
anything as sudo.




> 2. **Set the locale**: Run the following command to set your system
> back to UTF-8 (replace `en_GB` with your actual language code if it's
> different, e.g., `en_US`):
> ```bash
> sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>
> ```

So that would just be 
localectl set-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

>
>
> 3. **Update the configuration**: To ensure the change is applied
> everywhere, run:
> ```bash
> sudo localectl set-keymap uk (or 'us' depending on your keyboard)
>
> ```

localectl set-keymap uk

>
>
> 4. **Reboot**: Restart the system to see if the KDE login screen returns
>:
> ```bash
> sudo reboot
>
> ```

Again 
reboot

>
>
>
> **Note on ClamAV error**: The `clamav-clamonacc.service` failure is
> likely a side effect of the encoding change, as the service might be
> failing to read its own logs or config files due to the character
> mismatch. Once you are back in UTF-8, it should start normally.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> - -- 
> - --
>
> Abraços
>
> Gilberto F da Silva

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