I had set British English system-wide and changed Numbers, Time and Measurement Units in Regional Settings > Formats to en_GB. Then I used locale-purge to remove extra languages that I will never use. Now, the system-wide language has been set to US English although those formats are still in British English.

In Regional Settings, I can't find British English to bring it to top. There's only American English. The Add Language button is also greyed out.

I used sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and selected en_US.UTF-8 and en_GB.UTF-8 as available locales and set en_GB.UTF-8 as default language, but it didn't bring about any changes. I also noticed that it generated all other English variations although I hadn't selected those.

How can I add British English and set it system-wide?

Thanks in advance.

Maybe the British variant is simply not installed. Each language comes with its own packages, the only ones installed by default (unless chosen otherwise during the installation process) are those for US English I am afraid.
Using current Plasma 5.16.5 here, the add languages button shows and other languages can be installed, maybe an update of your system is needed?
If everything else fails, please file a bug on https://bugs.kde.org

Mamarok wrote:Maybe the British variant is simply not installed. Each language comes with its own packages, the only ones installed by default (unless chosen otherwise during the installation process) are those for US English I am afraid.
Using current Plasma 5.16.5 here, the add languages button shows and other languages can be installed, maybe an update of your system is needed?
If everything else fails, please file a bug on https://bugs.kde.org

Thank you Mamarok, for replying.

I installed Neon with default US English settings - to keep the keyboard layout. Then I manually changed those Formats to British English. Everything was fine after that - British English was set system-wide, too. But everything changed after that locale-purge command.

And now there's that "no other language" message and also the Add Language button greyed out. Shouldn't locale-purge have kept languages that are being used by the system?

There have been several updates lately, but that didn't change anything.

Could this really be a bug? In that case, a report is the only thing to do, I guess. I will wait a few more days to see if any solution come up.

For a start, try to reinstall the locales package first:

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apt-get install --reinstall locales

If this doesn't help, reinstall the following packages:

language-pack-en
language-pack-en-base
language-pack-kde-en