[Bug 1732222] Re: Language support not installed matching locale

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2018-05-25 22:49, David wrote:
> Still present on Ubuntu 18.04.

Hmm.. Yes it is. Unlike what I assumed in my comments above, there seems
to be an issue beyond bug #1294858.

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 with these selections:

* English language
* Normal installation
* London (UK) as the time zone location

This resulted in en_GB.UTF-8 being set as the locale:

$ cat /etc/default/locale
#  File generated by update-locale
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

And these are the additional packages which Language Support suggests
that I install:

$ check-language-support | tr ' ' '\n'
hunspell-en-au
hunspell-en-ca
hunspell-en-gb
hunspell-en-za
hyphen-en-ca
hyphen-en-gb
libreoffice-help-en-gb
libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
libreoffice-l10n-en-za
mythes-en-au
thunderbird-locale-en-gb

I.e. several British packages which ought to be installed already. This
command should not output anything:

$ check-language-support -l en_GB | tr ' ' '\n'
hunspell-en-gb
hyphen-en-gb
libreoffice-help-en-gb
libreoffice-l10n-en-gb
thunderbird-locale-en-gb

but it does.

So it looks like the installer behaves, with respect to language
support, as if I had installed with the en_US.UTF-8 locale.

Not sure that 16.04 behaves this way. In any case it's incorrect
behavior and should be fixed.

** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Language support not installed matching locale

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When Ubuntu is installed with UK locale settings during setup, all of
  the language support is not installed and some applications e.g.
  LibreOffice display with non-UK English. The extra language support is
  prompted to be installed *the first time* the user accesses the
  language options (see screenshot attached).

  When this language support is installed, these applications then
  (correctly) display menus etc in UK English.

  Ubuntu setup appears to not install the matching locale languages.

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