[Bug 859814] Re: Locale issues with beta-1/2 cloud-images

[Ben Howard]

So a couple of findings here.

We are doing locales wrong: generating the locales is only part of the
process of localizations. So while Cloud-Init generates the locales, the
images are far from localized. In order to have a localized image, the
base language pack (i.e. language-pack-{en,fr,de,...} needs to be
installed otherwise the base language remains in English. The default
"en_US.UTF8" locale is incomplete in the images since the language pack
is not installed.

Therefore, I think that we should do the following:

1. The images should have the "language-pack-en" installed. Any English
speaker who is exporting variable via SSH will automatically get
localization as long as the localization is standard. Since Ubuntu's
language of collaberation is English, this should fix the vast majority
of users encountering localization problems, unless they are exporting
non-standard chacter sets (i.e. exporting en_GB instead of en_GB.UTF8).

2. Cloud-init will should support the installation of language packs
when it parses "locale: <locale>" during the cloud-config section.

3. Cloud-init should have a /etc/profile.d message that tells people if
their locale settings are wrong and how to fix it.

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  Locale issues with beta-1/2 cloud-images

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