Re: Suggestion
On Fri, 31 May 2024 18:35:53 +0000, nino He?i <nhedi@vivaldi.net>
wrote:
>My suggestion is regarding locales. Currently we get to chose locale based
>on choices of language and keyboard layout and here in lies the problem.
>Rather than offer locales based on our selections don't,just list all of
>them in installer and let us users chose which one we want.
The "expert" install offers just this and it can be preseeded
accordingly. My routine choice is en_US.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8¹ and
de_DE.UTF-8 with en_US being the default.
|[2/5131]mh@swivel:~ $ < /etc/locale.gen grep -vE '^(#.*|)$'
|de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
|en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
|en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
|[3/5132]mh@swivel:~ $ locale
|LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
|LANGUAGE=en
|LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
|LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
|LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
|LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
|LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
|LC_ALL=
|[4/5132]mh@swivel:~ $
Greetings
Marc
¹ some software comes with its English translation in en_GB and if
that's not present it falls back to the ugly de_DE translation
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