Bug#271212: @euro support missing for Ireland

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

reassign 271212 debian-installer
severity 271212 wishlist
retitle Please create a localechooser package allowing to choose between several similar supported locales
thanks

Quoting Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl):
> Package: countrychooser
> Version:1.02
> 
> Because the default country for en (US) is not a Euro country, Ireland is 
> probably the only country that does not automatically get the @euro suffix 
> for LANG in /etc/environment (LANG=en_IE@euro).
> 
> This should be fixed post-sarge. The best option is probably to add a 
> locale-chooser that has good defaults and is shown at medium or lower 
> priority.


Indeed, the real interest for this is really low. As all @euro
locales, the en_IE@euro locale now has the exact same behaviour than
the en_IE.

In BOTH locales, the currency is for instance :

int_curr_symbol         "<U0045><U0055><U0052><U0020>"
currency_symbol         "<U20AC>"

So, basically, I still have to understand why we still need these
@euro variants..:-). Their only purpose is indeed being associated
later with a ISO-8859-15 charset while non @euro locales are often
associated with ISO-8859-1 (which is pure inconsistency because the
charset does NOT contain the currency symbol defined by the
locale....)

Anyway, in the future, when new countries will enter the Euro zone,
such locales may appear again and be really useful.

So, let's record this as a wishlist bug for a localechooser package
(which could be a fusion of lang/country choosers with more features).