[Bug 1747637] Re: localechooser in ubiquity will pick lzh_TW instead of zh_TW when timezone set to Taipei

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your report! I could confirm it using the latest daily build
ISO for groovy.

This is a bit odd, because according to this patch:

https://git.launchpad.net/ubiquity/tree/d-i/patches/localechooser-post-
base-installer.patch

the default language for TW is zh. Apparently there is more into it...

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

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

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

** Tags added: bionic focal groovy

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Title:
  localechooser in ubiquity will pick lzh_TW instead of zh_TW when
  timezone set to Taipei

Status in localechooser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install Ubuntu, use English as default language but manually set the timezone to Taipei
  2. Boot to desktop, run command `locale`

  Expected Result:
  * You should only see "en_US.UTF-8" and "zh_TW" in the output

  Actual Result:
  * You will see "lzh_TW" instead.

  Impact:
  This will cause error when running commands like apport, which will call the locale.py in Python

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 598, in <module>
      app.run_argv()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 694, in run_argv
      return self.run_crashes()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 245, in run_crashes
      logind_session[1] > self.report.get_timestamp():
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 1684, in get_timestamp
      orig_ctime = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 581, in getlocale
      return _parse_localename(localename)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/locale.py", line 490, in _parse_localename
      raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
  ValueError: unknown locale: lzh_TW

  (Bug opened for Python https://bugs.python.org/issue32781)

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