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Last active October 12, 2024 20:46
Solution for locale and character encoding issues in Japanese games on Steam Deck

Problem 1

Cannot access filenames containing non-ASCII characters.

Steam Deck's SteamOS 3 provides only one locale named en_US.utf8 (as configured in /etc/locale.gen) but /etc/locale.conf sets LANG to en_US.UTF-8. They don't match, so the effective locale for programs is C and the character set becomes limited to ASCII.

Set the game's launch options in Steam to LANG=en_US.utf8 %command% to solve this.

To fix this for all applications running in desktop mode (eg. to correctly extract games), create a file named ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/utf8.sh containing (restart desktop mode to apply):