On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 21:47, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Well, two-character language codes are normally valid locales, but I > guess the problem is the fact that the 'locales' package isn't > installed yet, /etc/locale.gen do not contain the requested locale > and/or locale-gen have not generated the requested locales yet. The > proper fix for this is to install 'locales' early, and make sure to > fill /etc/locale.gen with sensible content before locale-gen is > executed.
I thought that too, but experimentation suggests that bare language codes don't actually work as locales. It seems that the only locale codes you can put in /etc/locale.gen are those for which files exist in /usr/share/i18n/locales (I think this is probably the list given in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED). So, at least on a standard system, trying to generate a "fr" locale will fail. Even if this did work, base-config would still need to include the country code in the ultimate setting for $LANG, since users will expect LC_TIME, LC_MONETARY and so on to have the correct values. In fact the user will already get asked this question at some point by tzconfig, so base-config just needs to do it first and then make sure it creates /etc/timezone. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
