Bug#1060288: locales: Please allow selection of C.UTF-8 when (re)configuring locales
Package: locales Version: 2.36-9+deb12u3 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i l10n Dear Maintainer, It would be nice to have C.UTF-8 in the list which dpkg-reconfigure locales shows; When installing a desktop I usually select the C locale since the others don't really apply and I'm unable to use a different locale setting for date and lang. This however breaks gnome since it requires a utf-8 locale and I'm unable to select C.UTF-8 at installation. A workaround is to uncomment the C.UTF-8 locale in /etc/locale.gen and run dpkg-reconfigure locales after installation. Kind regards, Axel Scheepers -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii libc-bin 2.36-9+deb12u3 ii libc-l10n 2.36-9+deb12u3 locales recommends no packages. locales suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/locales_to_be_generated: C.UTF-8 UTF-8 * locales/default_environment_locale: C.UTF-8
Bug#1060288: locales: Please allow selection of C.UTF-8 when (re)configuring locales
Hello, On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 7:18 AM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > C.UTF-8 is not shown on purpose, because it doesn't need to be > generated, it is always available on the system. What you want is > probably to be able to select it as a default locale. Ah yes indeed. I was confused because it's an entry in /etc/locale.gen and uncommenting it and running dpkg-reconfigure locales showed it was generating it. This is the first time I had to use C.UTF-8. Can you elaborate on why it would be problematic to include it in the list? > A better workaround is probably to select a random locale to be > generated, then you should be able to select the C.UTF-8 locale as > default. Thanks, yes indeed that's better. Kind regards, Axel Scheepers
Bug#1060288: locales: Please allow selection of C.UTF-8 when (re)configuring locales
Hi, On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 11:54 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The problem is that you end-up with two C.UTF-8 locales on the system. > The one generated and the one provided by libc6. Normally that should > work fine, but there is no 100% guarantee that the C.UTF-8 working is > working fine during a major upgrade, between the time libc6 and locales > are unpacked. Ah ok I understand, thanks for explaining. > I have just implemented that in git, the current behaviour is a > left-over from before the time C.UTF-8 existed. Thanks! Kind regards, Axel Scheepers
