Bad character encoding in Ubuntu 13.04

[play3man]

I have Ubuntu 13.04 from release, fresh installation. System language is Slovak and character encoding is everywhere correct except numbers in Skype and VLC (only in settings, subtitles are encoded correctly)

In Skype are like this:

[١٩:١٣:١٣]
[١٩:١٣:٢٧]
[١٩:١٣:٤٣]
[١٩:١٤:٣٣]

And in VLC

٦ or ٧

So it is the same encoding like in Skype...

Here is a terminal output

play3man@play3man-Extensa-5630:~$ locale
LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=sk:en
LC_CTYPE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="sk_SK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
play3man@play3man-Extensa-5630:~$

[play3man]

Nobody knows how to fix it?

[dankojoffrey]

I had same issue with qbittorrent, clementine and others... system language is english as well as keyboard, but some apps shows up in slovak...

Output:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sk_SK.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

I had different language settings (english) and regional settings (slovak). I changed slovak to english, logged out and in and now it works fine... Maybe something wrong with slovak translation...

[uwabaki]

yes, had the same issue, changing regional settings to english fixs it

[Inoki]

A bug report has been filed to fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tr...s/+bug/1191241

[tomasz_svk]

Workaround here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1215057

[Inoki]

Workaround here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1215057

That won't help it, as I don't have any locale.gen file on my computer. Adding this line into terminal: "sudo gedit /etc/default/locale.gen" only brings up a blank file. Searching for it manually also.

[Inoki]

This workaround fixed it for me.