Bug#973455: locales: kab_DZ.UTF-8 not supported?

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Package: glibc
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: Slimane Selyan Amiri <selyan.kab@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org


Hi,

we are currently in the process of adding Kabyle as a new language to our
debian-installer.

The locale settings for the Kabyle language are supposed to be 
	language: Kabyle - kab
	country:  Algeria - DZ
	-> kab_DZ

I have added Kabyle to the localechooser package, and it correctly shows up as
a language in the "Choose language" dialog.


But I have a problem now in the text-based installer:
(in graphical installer everything is ok!)
While displaying the installer dialogs in Kabyle is fine, it fails to switch
the keyboard to the desired "Berber (Latin)" layout.
I also noticed that the installer states to use "kab_DZ" as locale, while
in the other languages there is an UTF-8 locale (like "de_DE.UTF-8" for German).
Maybe that's the reason for the installer failing to switch keyboard correctly ... ?


When diagnosing the list of supported locales, I see that in locales package
the situation is the same:

ned@t520:~$ grep kab /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED 
kab_DZ UTF-8
ned@t520:~$ 

Only "kab_DZ" shows up in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, instead of
"kab_DZ.UTF-8/UTF-8" like for many other languages.


Please accept my appologies, if I got something wrong here, but for me it
seems there is something wrong/missing... ?
Shouldn't UTF-8 be the default for years already? 
(Hmm, not for all languages/locales maybe ... ?)



Stay save
Holger



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