Bug#185269: locales: locales never works just after dpkg-reconfiguring (wish)

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:21:30 +0100,
Osvaldo La Rosa wrote:
> I encounter probably a classical problem: after installing locales and
> choose for ex. en_US iso8859-1 it would be nice if:
> a) the /etc/locale.gen contains this param
> b) the /etc/environment is generated (it does not until know anad as far as
> I observed)
> c) it would be nice if the environment is reloaded so that this new locales
> will take effect without having to reboot the system.

"take effect" is obscure representation...  Do you think the current
all program should change the environment variable?  It's impossible.
I recommend reboot or restart daemons.  OTOH, try "telnet localhost".
You see /etc/environment is affected immediately.

> Note: the same problem occurs while installing the Debian system from cd or
> from net, locales are never configured after you configure them, and no
> matter what you choosed (fr, nl, en).

This may be debian installer wishlist?

Regards,
-- gotom