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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: locales: locale en_US.ISO-8859-1 and en_US.iso88591 wrong with dpkg-reconfigure locales
- From: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:58:20 +0100
- Message-id: <148715270043.10317.9567427361863757375.reportbug@seba.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Package: locales
Version: 2.24-9
Severity: important
Tags: l10n
Dear Maintainer,
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
de_DE.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.iso88591...character map file `iso88591' not found: No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
This is on a stretch system, on a jessie system codeset is ISO-8859-1 in
"locale -a -v" output. Complete output on stretch is below.
Thanks,
greetings
Hermann
# locale -a -v
locale: de_DE archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | German locale for Germany
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | German
territory | Germany
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ISO-8859-1
locale: de_DE.iso88591 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | German locale for Germany
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | German
territory | Germany
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ISO-8859-1
locale: de_DE.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | German locale for Germany
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | German
territory | Germany
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | UTF-8
locale: deutsch archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | German locale for Germany
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | German
territory | Germany
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ISO-8859-1
locale: en_GB.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | English locale for Britain
source | RAP
address | Sankt Jørgens Alle 8, DK-1615 København V, Danmark
contact | Keld Simonsen
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | British English
territory | United Kingdom
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-28
codeset | UTF-8
locale: en_US archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | English locale for the USA
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | American English
territory | United States
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ANSI_X3.4-1968
locale: en_US.iso88591 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | English locale for the USA
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | American English
territory | United States
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ANSI_X3.4-1968
locale: en_US.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | English locale for the USA
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | American English
territory | United States
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | UTF-8
locale: german archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title | German locale for Germany
source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
language | German
territory | Germany
revision | 1.0
date | 2000-06-24
codeset | ISO-8859-1
locale: C.UTF-8 directory: /usr/lib/locale/C.UTF-8
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title | C locale
email | aurel32@debian.org
language | C
revision | 1.6
date | 2016-08-08
codeset | UTF-8
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.9 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60
ii libc-bin 2.24-9
ii libc-l10n 2.24-9
locales recommends no packages.
locales suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: de_DE ISO-8859-1, de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US.iso88591 iso88591
* locales/default_environment_locale: C.UTF-8
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- To: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>, 855194-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#855194: Re: Bug#855194: locales: locale en_US.ISO-8859-1 and en_US.iso88591 wrong with dpkg-reconfigure locales
- From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:22:28 +0200
- Message-id: <20170401122228.ssyrbgatf6tmjscj@aurel32.net>
- In-reply-to: <20170217104227.GB12486@lemon.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
- References: <148715270043.10317.9567427361863757375.reportbug@seba.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> <20170215213405.7nr4nrfweffyszrv@aurel32.net> <20170217104227.GB12486@lemon.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On 2017-02-17 11:42, Hermann Lauer wrote:
> > You have added the non-standard charset "iso88591" in /etc/locales.gen.
> > When doing so you should provide the corresponding charset file in
> > /usr/share/i18n/charmaps.
>
> Thanks for the hint - I did not touch the file, but had
> "d-i localechooser/supported-locales multiselect de_DE.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8, en_US.iso88591"
> in the preseed file used for stretch installation. That had worked for jessie.
>
> > Could you please confirm that just removing this broken entry fixes your
> > problem?
>
> Yes, fixed it - hoping now that "en_US ISO-8859-1" will work when preseeding
> the next stretch system. In the long run I hope to get rid of the
> backup software we have to use here, as with C.UTF-8 not all files on
> our servers are backed up.
Thanks for the feedback, i am therefore closing the bug with this mail.
Aurelien
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