[Bug 1373663] [NEW] Inadequate locale settings

nadrimajstor ipejic at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 23:18:56 UTC 2014


Public bug reported:

Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
Release:	14.10
ubiquity: 2.19.8

Choosing English language at the beginning of installation and accepting
all default options I expect to have a system with all of the default
locale options (system-wide) set to `en_US.UTF-8`.

At the moment, installer sets the strange mishmash of options:
`cat /etc/default/locale`
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sr_RS"
LC_TIME="sr_RS"
LC_MONETARY="sr_RS"
LC_PAPER="sr_RS"
LC_NAME="sr_RS"
LC_ADDRESS="sr_RS"
LC_TELEPHONE="sr_RS"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sr_RS"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sr_RS"
a) Locale settings and time zone settings are not the same i.e. I do expect to have correct local time zone (Europe/Belgrade). However I had choose English language at the beginning not Serbian. Hence I expect to have English locale applied system-wide.
(It happens to be that I do read Cyrillic but someone else might not.)
b) Setting aside first issue IMHO using `sr_RS` instead of `sr_RS.UTF-8` is a poor choice and also produces some unexpected behavior (e.g. having strange chars appearing in the apt-get's output)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Sep 25 00:35:57 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-24 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.19.8 utopic

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Title:
  Inadequate locale settings

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
  Release:	14.10
  ubiquity: 2.19.8

  Choosing English language at the beginning of installation and
  accepting all default options I expect to have a system with all of
  the default locale options (system-wide) set to `en_US.UTF-8`.

  At the moment, installer sets the strange mishmash of options:
  `cat /etc/default/locale`
  LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="sr_RS"
  LC_TIME="sr_RS"
  LC_MONETARY="sr_RS"
  LC_PAPER="sr_RS"
  LC_NAME="sr_RS"
  LC_ADDRESS="sr_RS"
  LC_TELEPHONE="sr_RS"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="sr_RS"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="sr_RS"
  a) Locale settings and time zone settings are not the same i.e. I do expect to have correct local time zone (Europe/Belgrade). However I had choose English language at the beginning not Serbian. Hence I expect to have English locale applied system-wide.
  (It happens to be that I do read Cyrillic but someone else might not.)
  b) Setting aside first issue IMHO using `sr_RS` instead of `sr_RS.UTF-8` is a poor choice and also produces some unexpected behavior (e.g. having strange chars appearing in the apt-get's output)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Sep 25 00:35:57 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-24 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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