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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.
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

```


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

```


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

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Abraços

Gilberto F da Silva
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