Bug#156386: locales: After installation of woody no locales have been generated
Package: locales
Version: 2.2.5-10
Severity: important
During installation of a few systems with woody one error showed up every
time: I chose some locales to generate via debconf (de_DE with different
font encodings and en_GB and en_US and fr_FR typically) and later discovered
that none of them had been generated. This leads to the effect that if one
sets "LANG=deutsch" every time perl is started up it shows the following
warning:
17:28 neunhoef@polaris 0% perl ~
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "deutsch"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Note that "deutsch" is an alias in "/etc/locale.alias" for "de_DE.ISO-8859-1",
which I chose to generate during install.
Perl is just an example, no program can use locales properly. In short:
Localization does not work at all.
After running "dpkg-reconfigure locales" once and again choosing the
correct locales everything works nicely.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux polaris 2.4.18 #3 Fri May 17 17:52:06 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management system
ii libc6 2.2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-2.2.5-10)
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