To me it looks like different issues are unnecessarily mixed up here.
If I understand it correctly, the response to bug #590108 was to open a
way to use two locale names in a few specified cases. For instance:
If a user selects simplified Chinese as the language, followed by Taiwan
as the location, /etc/default/locale should contain:
LANG="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
The proposal in this bug report is to change that, so that the same
choices result in these /etc/default/locale entries instead:
LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_TW.UTF-8"
Both ways give us (almost) the same end result, and I don't think the
change is of a semantical nature. Making the change is still important,
since language-selector no longer sets LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE and
LC_COLLATE. Future attempts to change the system language from language-
selector would else fail.
On 2012-03-19 21:58, Colin Watson wrote:
> If the user says that they speak English and live in Switzerland, what
> is the correct value for LC_NUMERIC?
Leaving Martin's remark aside for now (even if I agree it can be
discussed), I suppose it's either of 'de_CH.UTF-8', 'fr_CH.UTF-8' or
'it_CH.UTF-8'. I think I understand the complexity you want to call our
attention to, and I'd be happy to discuss it further. But IMO it's a
separate matter, i.e. the installer's way in general to deal with
localisation, and beyond the scope of this bug.
** Changed in: localechooser (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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