[Bug 1373663] Re: Inadequate locale settings

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Inadequate locale settings

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
  Release:	14.10
  ubiquity: 2.19.8

  Choosing English language at the beginning of installation and
  accepting all default options I expect to have a system with all of
  the default locale options (system-wide) set to `en_US.UTF-8`.

  At the moment, installer sets the strange mishmash of options:
  `cat /etc/default/locale`
  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="sr_RS"
  LC_TIME="sr_RS"
  LC_MONETARY="sr_RS"
  LC_PAPER="sr_RS"
  LC_NAME="sr_RS"
  LC_ADDRESS="sr_RS"
  LC_TELEPHONE="sr_RS"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="sr_RS"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="sr_RS"
  a) Locale settings and time zone settings are not the same i.e. I do expect to have correct local time zone (Europe/Belgrade). However I had choose English language at the beginning not Serbian. Hence I expect to have English locale applied system-wide.
  (It happens to be that I do read Cyrillic but someone else might not.)
  b) Setting aside first issue IMHO using `sr_RS` instead of `sr_RS.UTF-8` is a poor choice and also produces some unexpected behavior (e.g. having strange chars appearing in the apt-get's output)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Sep 25 00:35:57 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-24 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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