Bug#271164: Installation Report amd64(gcc-3.2)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl):
> clone 271164 -1
> reassign -1 languagechooser
> retitle -1 "LANG=en" setting not supported in installed system
> severity -1 important
> thanks

Hmmm, I beg to disagree on the severity.

> It's unclear to me how selecting English / United States can result in 
> "British" settings, but it looks like a LANG=en setting is not supported 
> (LANGUAGE does not seem relevant here):
> 
> #echo $LANG
> en
> #echo $LANGUAGE
> en_GB:en_US:en
> #man ls >/dev/null
> man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct


Hey, did you first generate the en_* locales ?

All this damn works for me:

root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# set|grep LANG
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8:fr_FR.ISO-8859-15:fr_FR.ISO-8859-1:fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# LANG=en_US
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8#
Display all 3681 possibilities? (y or n)
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# man ls >/dev/null
Remise en forme de ls(1), attendez SVP...
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# man ls >/dev/null
Reformatting ls(1), please wait...
root@mykerinos:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8#