Bug#552560: locale selection incomplete
On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > No, I can *add* the en_GB locale later. I cannot chose it as system
> > > default, and I tried expert mode.
> >
> > Sorry, you are correct. Reopening.
>
> A possible solution could be to invert the two expert questions: first
> ask which extra locales to install and then offer to select a default
> from the selected locales.
That's actually quite simple to implement and even simplifies the code
quite a bit.
Martin, Christian: please give this image a try.
http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/madduck/
It's not completely polished, but it has the basic idea. Please test a full
install as I've not yet done so.
Note that the "old" default locale will still be used for the installation
itself (i.e. en_US), but should set what you select for the installed
system. Possibly we could change that, but then we would then need to
limit the locales allowed as default to UTF-8 based locales.
But maybe it's time to drop support for non-UTF-8 locales altogether?
Cheers,
FJP
Reply to: