I also have noted this bug many times over the years. However, it is more severe for me in the server versions were we require utf8 (and only need one language). In a server/client configuration this can really mess things up (it does create severe charset bugs).
Apparently working solutions differs both between ubuntu versions and within the same version, according to users. E.g., for me no solution with locale-gen etc will work anymore (lots of them on the Internet) - when starting a fresh 12.04 build from ubuntu.com as mentioned previously (on amazon in my latest case). The only viable solution i have found is to set "/etc/default/locale", then manually and run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" (with log-off/exit and login after). What is missing is ALWAYS variable LANGUAGE and LC_ALL (on server). What is worse is that apt-get often removes manual fixes to this problem when running apt-get dist-upgrade. example locale file i altered (note use versions such as "en_US.UTF8" is not stable it seems, even though locale -a list it exactly that way). LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 Also, does anyone know what the difference between variable "LANGUAGE" and "LANG" is? I really would like to know if i can set ALL handling to utf8 (which LANGUAGE appears to be missing). NOTE 2: must be many more duplicate bugs for this on debian/ubuntu. Is this the only one (few admin/bugfixes/sysnotes as far as i can se)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229699 Title: "setting locale failed" if using other keyboard layout then language To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/229699/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
