[Bug 590108] Re: User get wrong system language after executing oem-config, if he is a foreigner in the country he selected in timezone select stage

[Colin Watson]

It's harder because you have to actually select the location-based
locale.  I picked my example quite carefully: "I speak English and I
live in Switzerland" isn't enough to isolate a single locale
representing the location, for instance, so the installer would have to
guess; depending on which one it picks, it will get different answers
for such things as LC_NUMERIC.  In some cases there will be a clearly
right answer; in some cases there will not.  We may even have to ask,
although I would prefer to avoid that.  As far as I can see
language-selector is operating with a somewhat different set of input
data and does not attempt to solve this problem.

In the pt/zh case, the problem was that we were correctly selecting a
locale matching the location, but this was making too great a change to
the more language-oriented categories.

I don't hugely care about which way round the environment variables go.
To be honest, I think you'll probably see bugs either way.

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Title:
  User get wrong system language  after executing oem-config, if he is a
  foreigner in the country he selected in timezone select stage

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Confirmed
Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “localechooser” source package in Maverick:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Maverick:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Summary:

  oem-config does not set user prefers language  if a user is a foreigner in the country he selected in timezone select stage.
  All local will be set by the country of a city user selected in timezone-setting step again, it will replace LANGUAGE/LANG variable, it should only change LC_MONETARY in ubiquity-2.2.24common2tianmu1/scripts/localechooser-apply file.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install system.
  2. In language select stage, select Simplified Chinese to install.
  3. OOBE language is changed to Simplified Chinese.
  4. In timezoone select stage , select Taiwan Time(Official language is Traditional Chinese)
  5. Installation completed and reboot to system.

  Expected result:
  System's language is Simplified Chinese.

  Actual result:
  System's language is Traditional Chinese.

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