Bug#253404: debian-installer: The default locale should be seted to "POSIX" after installation

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>]

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reassign 253404 base-config
severity 253404 normal
thanks

At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:39:11 +0800,
Tetralet wrote:
> We find that the locale was seted to: (if Debian was installed in Traditional Chinese)
> 
>   LANG=zh_TW
 (snip)
> 
> User's console may not be able to show Traditional Chinese characters correctly,
> When some command output Traditional Chinese characters, The outputs will become illegible codes.
> It may confuse users.

I know people who use CJK or some other languages need special
terminal for their languages, and understand what you say.

But, I prefer setting LANG for their own language as default
(/etc/environment) rather than LANG=C.
It is really painful to force users to set LANG by themselves.
Generally, I believe users will use X Window System or remote shell,
won't use raw console.

If I'm asked 'which do you prefer', I choose local LANG although raw
console has a problem.

It would be good that users can continue to use i18n console terminal
such as jfbterm or bterm after 2nd stage... but unfortunately we can't
launch X Window System as user level from its terminal by security
reason.

One of my simple idea is to define LANG=C for only 'root' shell
configuration, and /etc/environment is preserved as local LANG.
Message localization is not so important for administration, and
sometimes message localization on root account causes a problem such
as this report.

Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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