Bug#246398: locales: LC_CTYPE defaults to non-installed en_US.UTF8

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:44:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Blars Blarson wrote:
> > On a freshly installed sarge system (used april 27 i386 buisnesscard)
> > I get errors from perl and other programs due to the setting of
> > LC_CTYPE to the non-installed locale en_US.UTF8.  Either this locale
> > needs to be installed by default as well or the default setting of
> > LC_CTYPE needs to change.
> 
> Just a guess, but it could be that this is because base-config stores
> any locale other than en_US is /etc/environment. Probably it should also
> check for en_US.UTF8. I still think that this change was a bad idea, and
> won't be suprised if we have to revert it for other reasons. See
> #237387.

No, base-config (more precisely termwrap) sets LANG, not LC_CTYPE, so
this setting comes from another program.

Denis