Hi,
On 2020-10-30 22:00, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Package: glibc
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-CC: Slimane Selyan Amiri
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> we are currently in the process of adding Kabyle as a new language to our
> debian-installer.
>
> The locale settings for the Kabyle language are supposed to be
> language: Kabyle - kab
> country: Algeria - DZ
> -> kab_DZ
>
> I have added Kabyle to the localechooser package, and it correctly shows up as
> a language in the "Choose language" dialog.
I confirm that the kab_DZ is available in glibc, it has been added in
version 2.27. You can also check that the date is properly displayed on
a running Debian system.
$ LC_ALL=kab_DZ date
Sed 31 Tub 2020 17:36:48 CET
> But I have a problem now in the text-based installer:
> (in graphical installer everything is ok!)
> While displaying the installer dialogs in Kabyle is fine, it fails to switch
> the keyboard to the desired "Berber (Latin)" layout.
Keyboard layout is not something handled by the glibc locales.
> I also noticed that the installer states to use "kab_DZ" as locale, while
> in the other languages there is an UTF-8 locale (like "de_DE.UTF-8" for
> German).
> Maybe that's the reason for the installer failing to switch keyboard
> correctly ... ?
This is correct, because the kab_DZ locale is only available as UTF-8.
de_DE.UTF-8 exists because the default de_DE locale is ISO-8859-1
encoded. The same way there is also a de_DE@euro locale defaulting to
ISO-8859-15.
> When diagnosing the list of supported locales, I see that in locales package
> the situation is the same:
>
> ned@t520:~$ grep kab /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> kab_DZ UTF-8
> ned@t520:~$
>
> Only "kab_DZ" shows up in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, instead of
> "kab_DZ.UTF-8/UTF-8" like for many other languages.
This is perfectly normal. There are many other locales without UTF-8 in
their name, see for example fy_DE or en_NG.
> Please accept my appologies, if I got something wrong here, but for me it
> seems there is something wrong/missing... ?
> Shouldn't UTF-8 be the default for years already?
> (Hmm, not for all languages/locales maybe ... ?)
Yes, that's exactly because UTF-8 is the default for years already that the
Kabylian locale is only available as kab_DZ.
Regards,
Aurelien
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