[Bug 859814] Re: Locale issues with beta-1/2 cloud-images

[Scott Moser]

Ug. whenever we think we're going down the right track, we find more information.  But I guess, better to know it now then later.
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/04/03/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t00:19 is a conversation between cjwatson, myself and infinity.

There, I find out
 a. it is perfectly valid and supported to run 'localegen' for locales where no corresponding language-pack-xx is installed
 b. an easy way to check "is this locale currently valid" is to do:
    import locale
    try:
       locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')  # or a specific locale as the second argument 
    except locale.Error

That wont' involve apt (and thus will be quicker).

Because of 'a', cloud-init is not invalid in doing its 'locale-gen' on
possibly un-installed locales, so I think i'd just leave that as it is
for now.

And i think we can just handle package installation via informing the
user on login.  This means really that the more difficult to get right
portion of this change (the package installation) can just be skipped.

What do you think, Ben?

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  Locale issues with beta-1/2 cloud-images

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