Bug#503189: tzsetup: Preseeding timezone doesn't work as described
On Thursday 23 October 2008, Durk Strooisma wrote:
> I mean, if you specify "en_NL" as locale, an uninformed user would
> probably be surprised to see LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8".
Well, you could trust the installer to not set an invalid locale :-)
> Just to check if I understand correctly; so "en_US" is the default
> locale for an "en_<country>" setting that does not exist as real
> locale?
Correct. Each language has its own default locale defined in a table.
> See my comment above in this post about adding a note to the D-I
> manual. Would be nice that users get a bit more details.
The manual specified that locale could be used to set both language and
country, without mentioning restrictions. But I do agree with you and
have just committed a patch that should clarify things.
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