Telegram - locale error

[Mark E. Fuller]

Yes, at the high-level, I believe that's what happened in my case and is 
likely in yours

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On 03/12/2021 13:39, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> In this case, Telegram (on Kubuntu) is installed with snap. I personally
> do not like snap and install from snap only if there is no native
> package. But, if I understand it correctly (and I may be wrong), there
> is some sort of "sandbox" here so the app is running with it's own
> environment, dependencies etc. That may be the reason none of the
> suggestions that I've received (on and off the list) have worked.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 13:12:10 +0200
> "Mark E. Fuller" <mark.e.fuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, on the topic of fun, I have been using Nheko Reborn as my
>> desktop client for Matrix chat and currently have an account with
>> Element One to bridge my WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram all to the
>> same account - being able to have one window with all my chats on the
>> desktop has been great.
>>
>> I can't really comment on this particular problem, except that I have
>> had some problems on Fedora/KDE with Flatpaks and locale settings in
>> the past (keyboard layout not swapping in the app), which I solved by
>> going to an RPM for install instead. In that particular case it was
>> Slack, so I'm hoping to have it rolled into Matrix as well soon
>> enough...
>>
>> Mark E. Fuller, Ph.D.
>> HaShikma 19, Apt. 24
>> Nesher 3681219, Israel
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>> mark.e.fuller at gmail.com
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>> On 03/12/2021 12:33, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>>> Already tried that and it did not work.
>>>
>>> The truth is that I don't even use Telegram, but when I heard it
>>> runs on Linux, I thought it would be fun to try.
>>>
>>> But it's not worth the time I've wasted on it, so I'm giving up.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:25:29 +0200
>>> borissh1983 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1. KDE (and qt) has another level of language config that is loaded
>>>> (system settings -> Regional settings -> Format) , try disabling
>>>> it. 2. your error look like a seccomp violation error.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 2 December 2021 13:37:12 IST Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>>>>> I installed telegram from snap
>>>>>       - sudo snap install telegram-desktop
>>>>>
>>>>> When I try running telegram from the KDE menu, nothing happens,
>>>>> but running dmesg shows:
>>>>>
>>>>> [2416340.605905] audit: type=1326 audit(1638444718.942:4956):
>>>>> auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 ses=1 pid=1860346 comm="telegram-deskto"
>>>>> exe="/snap/telegram-desktop/3343/usr/bin/telegram-desktop" sig=0
>>>>> arch=c000003e syscall=314 compat=0 ip=0x7f599ed3189d code=0x50000
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> when I try running from a terminal, I see the same thing in dmesg
>>>>> and also get the following in the terminal:
>>>>>
>>>>> /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale
>>>>> (en_US.UTF-8)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see any problems with my locale, but maybe I'm missing
>>>>> something:
>>>>>
>>>>> solomon at shlomo1:~$ locale
>>>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>>> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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