On Friday 19 March 2004 09:07, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > * And last there is no questions about locales (dpkg-reconfigure > > > > locales). So you have to add locales by yourself and choose your > > > > standard locale (in case you wanted UTF8 or something like that) for > > > > example. > > > > > > Didn't the installer use the locale matching the language you chose at > > > the very beginning of the install? It should be all set up in > > > /etc/locale.gen for you. > > > > Yes, your're right. ISO 8859 was set as standard because I selected en_US > > as installation language. I just liked it more when I was able to decide > > what I wanted as standard. > > My rough opinion about this is�: > > -locales should be installed as soon as anything else than en_US is > chosen in languagechooser/countrychooser
> -I'm not sure whether it is Good to install the package with the en_US > choice. We maybe need a "POSIX" choice in languagechooser (not very > newbie friendly, however) > I'm not sure if I agree with this. Even though I'm Dutch, I always set up my systems as basically English language systems and select en_US as language and Netherlands as country. But I _do_ want support for accented characters and the Euro sign. So I would like to see locales installed and the configuration questions come by, at least in a medium priority install (which in Beta 3 it does not).
