[SOLVED] Systemd locale issue

Question

I have a recent fresh install of Arch, it's a "pure" systemd installation.
I'm using XFCE4 and Terminal.
I can't manage get proper unicode support, only in the terminal: I'm always stuck on POSIX.
All of this code is run as root.
$ grep -v '#' /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ locale-gen
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
fr_FR.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX
$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
Pressing my "é" key on the keyboard just produces a "?" in the terminal.
I don't have this issue in any other application.
I have also tried the following:
$ export LANG=en_US.utf8
$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
But I still can't input accented characters.
All of the following lines don't help:
$ export LANG="en_US.utf8"
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Rebooting multiple times between modifications has not helped.
Help would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks.
Last edited by qdm (2012-09-15 15:32:24)

Answer 1

qdm wrote:
Thanks ! I googled this issue for a while and did not find any relevant information.
The solution that worked was in the comments to that post:
I had to force installing the filesystem package which now provides locale.sh and after that I proceeded with installing systemd-sysvcompat which deleted the same file.
Reinstalling filesystem solves the issue.
Thank you, that problem was driving me nuts, was almoust a showstopper to systemd for me.