On Fri, 31 May 2024 18:35:53 +0000, nino He?i <nh...@vivaldi.net> wrote: >My suggestion is regarding locales. Currently we get to chose locale based >on choices of language and keyboard layout and here in lies the problem. >Rather than offer locales based on our selections don't,just list all of >them in installer and let us users chose which one we want.
The "expert" install offers just this and it can be preseeded accordingly. My routine choice is en_US.UTF-8, en_GB.UTF-8¹ and de_DE.UTF-8 with en_US being the default. |[2/5131]mh@swivel:~ $ < /etc/locale.gen grep -vE '^(#.*|)$' |de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 |en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 |en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |[3/5132]mh@swivel:~ $ locale |LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 |LANGUAGE=en |LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" |LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" |LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 |LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 |LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" |LC_ALL= |[4/5132]mh@swivel:~ $ Greetings Marc ¹ some software comes with its English translation in en_GB and if that's not present it falls back to the ugly de_DE translation -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
