[SOLVED] BG language: missing symbols in steam updating-window with non-Ubuntu/Debian Distro

[deathxxx123]

Your system information

System Info from Steam client: https://gist.github.com/deathxxx123/2882ea57aebca8325bd016180e8b66a2

• Steam client version (build number or date): steam-manjaro 1.0.0.71-1
• Distribution: Manjaro Budgie/KDE/Gnome, Solus Budgie (I try all of them)
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes and No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When steam client is updating, when small window with download progress appears, the BG language does not shown correctly in that window, but EN are ok. In steam client all are ok. With Ubuntu all are ok. That is happen with non-Ubuntu distro, and never get fixed or workarounded. I see something not right with strace command:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)

It's missing Bulgarian LC Messages. I check in /usr/locale/share and there are no bash.mo or steam.mo

EDIT: This problem exist for years, but now i just decide to report, because is not a big issue.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Use Solus or Manjaro distro.
2. Use Bulgarian language for steam client.
3. Switch to Beta or Stable or whatever to force the updating-window appear after restarting steam client.
4. Watch for readable content during update progress.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @deathxxx123, it looks likes Arch's bash package provides /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo, so I'd expect it to be in the same place for Manjaro.

Can you share the output of locale -a? I'm mildly curious if it includes en_US.utf8, and if it doesn't, if adding (or uncommenting) en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen, then running locale-gen as root influences your issue.

[deathxxx123]

Hello @deathxxx123, it looks likes Arch's bash package provides /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo, so I'd expect it to be in the same place for Manjaro.

Can you share the output of locale -a? I'm mildly curious if it includes en_US.utf8, and if it doesn't, if adding (or uncommenting) en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen, then running locale-gen as root influences your issue.

Yes, there are /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/bash.mo But don't have the /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo

locale -a
aa_DJ.utf8
aa_ER.utf8
aa_ER.utf8@saaho
aa_ET.utf8
af_ZA.utf8
agr_PE.utf8
ak_GH.utf8
am_ET.utf8
an_ES.utf8
anp_IN.utf8
ar_AE.utf8
ar_BH.utf8
ar_DZ.utf8
ar_EG.utf8
ar_IN.utf8
ar_IQ.utf8
ar_JO.utf8
ar_KW.utf8
ar_LB.utf8
ar_LY.utf8
ar_MA.utf8
ar_OM.utf8
ar_QA.utf8
ar_SA.utf8
ar_SD.utf8
ar_SS.utf8
ar_SY.utf8
ar_TN.utf8
ar_YE.utf8
as_IN.utf8
ast_ES.utf8
ayc_PE.utf8
az_AZ.utf8
az_IR.utf8
be_BY.utf8
be_BY.utf8@latin
bem_ZM.utf8
ber_DZ.utf8
ber_MA.utf8
bg_BG.utf8
bhb_IN.utf8
bho_IN.utf8
bho_NP.utf8
bi_VU.utf8
bn_BD.utf8
bn_IN.utf8
bo_CN.utf8
bo_IN.utf8
br_FR.utf8
brx_IN.utf8
bs_BA.utf8
byn_ER.utf8
C
ca_AD.utf8
ca_ES.utf8
ca_ES.utf8@valencia
ca_FR.utf8
ca_IT.utf8
ce_RU.utf8
chr_US.utf8
cmn_TW.utf8
crh_UA.utf8
csb_PL.utf8
cs_CZ.utf8
cv_RU.utf8
cy_GB.utf8
da_DK.utf8
de_AT.utf8
de_BE.utf8
de_CH.utf8
de_DE.utf8
de_IT.utf8
de_LI.utf8
de_LU.utf8
doi_IN.utf8
dsb_DE.utf8
dv_MV.utf8
dz_BT.utf8
el_CY.utf8
el_GR.utf8
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IL.utf8
en_IN.utf8
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SC.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
eo.utf8
es_AR.utf8
es_BO.utf8
es_CL.utf8
es_CO.utf8
es_CR.utf8
es_CU.utf8
es_DO.utf8
es_EC.utf8
es_ES.utf8
es_GT.utf8
es_HN.utf8
es_MX.utf8
es_NI.utf8
es_PA.utf8
es_PE.utf8
es_PR.utf8
es_PY.utf8
es_SV.utf8
es_US.utf8
es_UY.utf8
es_VE.utf8
et_EE.utf8
eu_ES.utf8
fa_IR.utf8
ff_SN.utf8
fi_FI.utf8
fil_PH.utf8
fo_FO.utf8
fr_BE.utf8
fr_CA.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
fr_LU.utf8
fur_IT.utf8
fy_DE.utf8
fy_NL.utf8
ga_IE.utf8
gd_GB.utf8
gez_ER.utf8
gez_ER.utf8@abegede
gez_ET.utf8
gez_ET.utf8@abegede
gl_ES.utf8
gu_IN.utf8
gv_GB.utf8
hak_TW.utf8
ha_NG.utf8
he_IL.utf8
hif_FJ.utf8
hi_IN.utf8
hne_IN.utf8
hr_HR.utf8
hsb_DE.utf8
ht_HT.utf8
hu_HU.utf8
hy_AM.utf8
ia_FR.utf8
id_ID.utf8
ig_NG.utf8
ik_CA.utf8
is_IS.utf8
it_CH.utf8
it_IT.utf8
iu_CA.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
kab_DZ.utf8
ka_GE.utf8
kk_KZ.utf8
kl_GL.utf8
km_KH.utf8
kn_IN.utf8
kok_IN.utf8
ko_KR.utf8
ks_IN.utf8
ks_IN.utf8@devanagari
ku_TR.utf8
kw_GB.utf8
ky_KG.utf8
lb_LU.utf8
lg_UG.utf8
li_BE.utf8
lij_IT.utf8
li_NL.utf8
ln_CD.utf8
lo_LA.utf8
lt_LT.utf8
lv_LV.utf8
lzh_TW.utf8
mag_IN.utf8
mai_IN.utf8
mai_NP.utf8
mfe_MU.utf8
mg_MG.utf8
mhr_RU.utf8
mi_NZ.utf8
miq_NI.utf8
mjw_IN.utf8
mk_MK.utf8
ml_IN.utf8
mni_IN.utf8
mn_MN.utf8
mnw_MM.utf8
mr_IN.utf8
ms_MY.utf8
mt_MT.utf8
my_MM.utf8
nan_TW.utf8
nan_TW.utf8@latin
nb_NO.utf8
nds_DE.utf8
nds_NL.utf8
ne_NP.utf8
nhn_MX.utf8
niu_NU.utf8
niu_NZ.utf8
nl_AW.utf8
nl_BE.utf8
nl_NL.utf8
nn_NO.utf8
nr_ZA.utf8
nso_ZA.utf8
oc_FR.utf8
om_ET.utf8
om_KE.utf8
or_IN.utf8
os_RU.utf8
pa_IN.utf8
pap_AW.utf8
pap_CW.utf8
pa_PK.utf8
pl_PL.utf8
POSIX
ps_AF.utf8
pt_BR.utf8
pt_PT.utf8
quz_PE.utf8
raj_IN.utf8
ro_RO.utf8
ru_RU.utf8
ru_UA.utf8
rw_RW.utf8
sah_RU.utf8
sa_IN.utf8
sat_IN.utf8
sc_IT.utf8
sd_IN.utf8
sd_IN.utf8@devanagari
se_NO.utf8
sgs_LT.utf8
shn_MM.utf8
shs_CA.utf8
sid_ET.utf8
si_LK.utf8
sk_SK.utf8
sl_SI.utf8
sm_WS.utf8
so_DJ.utf8
so_ET.utf8
so_KE.utf8
so_SO.utf8
sq_AL.utf8
sq_MK.utf8
sr_ME.utf8
sr_RS.utf8
sr_RS.utf8@latin
ss_ZA.utf8
st_ZA.utf8
sv_FI.utf8
sv_SE.utf8
sw_KE.utf8
sw_TZ.utf8
szl_PL.utf8
ta_IN.utf8
ta_LK.utf8
tcy_IN.utf8
te_IN.utf8
tg_TJ.utf8
the_NP.utf8
th_TH.utf8
ti_ER.utf8
ti_ET.utf8
tig_ER.utf8
tk_TM.utf8
tl_PH.utf8
tn_ZA.utf8
to_TO.utf8
tpi_PG.utf8
tr_CY.utf8
tr_TR.utf8
ts_ZA.utf8
tt_RU.utf8
tt_RU.utf8@iqtelif
ug_CN.utf8
uk_UA.utf8
unm_US.utf8
ur_IN.utf8
ur_PK.utf8
uz_UZ.utf8
uz_UZ.utf8@cyrillic
ve_ZA.utf8
vi_VN.utf8
wa_BE.utf8
wae_CH.utf8
wal_ET.utf8
wo_SN.utf8
xh_ZA.utf8
yi_US.utf8
yo_NG.utf8
yue_HK.utf8
yuw_PG.utf8
zh_CN.utf8
zh_HK.utf8
zh_SG.utf8
zh_TW.utf8
zu_ZA.utf8

And the en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 was commented in /etc/locale.gen I remove the comment and generate locales again. Now i restart steam to test if there are same missing fonts when updating, and problem still exist. I will reboot whole system and test it again.

EDIT: I rebooted whole system and still the same.

[deathxxx123]

There are messegas for steam.mo from command: strace steam:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (Няма такъв файл или директория)

Full output(and i just cancel the update progress at the end of output): https://gist.github.com/deathxxx123/c77282c318670482081d4f97885860ea

[deathxxx123]

This is strace steam output during update window from Pop!_OS 20.04: https://gist.github.com/deathxxx123/1426f95226a4fe6670da923c6412dda0 It is much short and don't have this type messages in it and all looking good: openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/bg_BG.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/steam.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT

[deathxxx123]

I see that, in this small window fonts are different than fonts in my OS or steam client. So i think this update window exactly is using some other set of fonts that are available for Ubuntu, but missing with any other non-Debian/Ubuntu based distros. If i can find what fonts are using this update window and from where exactly gets this fonts, i can trace what is missing. In steam client fonts look like this:

[adem4ik]

I've resolved similar issue on Manjaro Linux with Russian language by installing the following packages xorg-mkfontscale, xorg-fonts-cyrillic, xorg-fonts-misc and restarting PC. Solution was found on Russian Arch forum.

I think it is better to ask OSes' maintainers to make dependency on those packages.

P.S. You can test that window by switching to Steam Beta/Stable channel.

[deathxxx123]

I've resolved similar issue on Manjaro Linux with Russian language by installing the following packages xorg-mkfontscale, xorg-fonts-cyrillic, xorg-fonts-misc and restarting PC. Solution was found on Russian Arch forum.

I think it is better to ask OSes' maintainers to make dependency on those packages.

P.S. You can test that window by switching to Steam Beta/Stable channel.

I confirm that is working on Manjaro Linux!!! After install: xorg-fonts-cyrillic xorg-fonts-misc the Bulgarian cyrillic fonts are fixed!

Big thanks adem4ik !!!