some characters are rendered wrong in en_IN

[Rohan Dhruva]

I noticed that the installer selects the locale automatically, based on the timezone. I stay in India - timezone Asia/Calcutta - and the locale automatically selected was en_IN. Due to this certain characters - mostly ' and ` - and not properly rendered in man pages and some command outputs.

Hence, I would request a feature - please make it possible for the user to select the desired locale while installing. IMHO it would be proper to include such an option in the "Expert Settings" part of the installer (i.e. where grub and popcon are configured - i forget the exact name of that mode).

Thanks.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Isn't the real bug that the automatically selected locale doesn't work properly?

What do you mean by "properly rendered"? Note that ' and ` are *not* literal characters in manual pages, as commonly misunderstood; they are rendered as left and right single quotation marks. See groff_char(7) in the groff package.

[Rohan Dhruva (rohandhruva)]

But this happens on all distros where en_IN locale is selected - the quotation marks are not shown properly. They show up as some weird characters .. If you think the real bug is in en_IN locale, please tell me which package do I file a bug against ?

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Triaged to Confirmed. Reassigned to language packs locale to move along.

[Rohan Dhruva (rohandhruva)]

Thanks for the update, Terry..
This bug actually occurs on all distros - it is not specific or restricted to ubuntu. Should it rather be filed somewhere "upstream"?