Bug#453041: Country Liechtenstein not in country list when selecting German as language in installer

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@cateee.net>]

CC: to madduck.
IIRC he is rewriting the locales for Switzerland, so
probably he could do quickly also for Liechtenstein too.

BTW madduck: there is some news about the project?

ciao
	cate


Christian Perrier wrote:
> reassign 453041 locales
> retitle 453041 Please provide a locale for German/Liechtenstein
> severity 453041 wishlist
> thanks
>
> Quoting Josef Vogt (josef.vogt@li-life.li):
> > Package: installation-reports
> > Version:
> >
> > When installing debian, when choosing German as language, the country 
> > Liechtenstein isn't in the list for German speaking countries. It would be 
> > nice also Liechtenstein having in this list, because German is the only 
> > official language in Liechtenstein.
>
> Countries that are displayed after the language selection are
> countries for which a locale with the given language exists in the
> locales package. Not countries for which the given language is an
> official language. This is often the same list because, of course,
> locales have been written for language/country combinations that make
> sense.
>
> The solution to this problem is writing a de_LI locale, which would
> definitely make sense.
>
> Writing locales is not that hard: pick up a similar locale on your
> system (/usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE) and modify the
> country-dependent parts to fit the new country. Then name it
> appropriately (here de_LI).
>
> It of course needs some knwoledge of the said country and the said language.
>
> The only tricky part is that locales files use "Uxxxx" notations which
> makes writing them quite tricky. Thankfully, Denis Barbier wrote the
> attached scripts, in the past, that help converting file back and
> forth from UTF-8 to Uxxxx notation.