LANG=C.UTF-8 in squashfs prevents configuration of locale

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

The code in 05localechooser assumes that if grep -q ^LANG= /target/etc/default/locale succeeds it's managed to configure the locale. But that file defaults to LANG=C.UTF-8 now and so localechooser never sets the locale.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

There's code in ubiquity to deal with this situation, probably wants a bit of a cargo-cult (or maybe a wholesale move, if moving it to localechoose, which is embedded in ubiquity, causes the ubiquity code to become redundant)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package localechooser - 2.71ubuntu2

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localechooser (2.71ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Allow localechooser to write out preferences to /etc/default/locale
    even if we're installing to a pre-configured rootfs. (LP: #1759442)
  * Make C.UTF-8 a configurable option and use the same codepaths as C.
  * Set C.UTF-8 as default when localechooser is not seen or preseeded.

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:08:00 -0600