Comment 7 for bug 1907914

On 2021-03-19 19:37, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> This bug is a duplicate of a bug first reported way back in 2014:

That's formally correct. But since this bug was submitted, I had forgotten about the other bug, and a fix referring to this one was implemented, I marked it the other way around. Doesn't matter in practice - you are here now, right? :)

On 2021-03-19 19:42, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> How is this problem solved in other countries with multiple
> languages, for example Switzerland?

Switzerland seems to have the same situation:

$ grep _CH /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep 'UTF-8'
de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
wae_CH UTF-8

I.e. the installer picks de_CH.UTF-8 if the user selects English as language. But since German is spoken by the majority in Switzerland, it's a sensible default and there is no problem to solve. Besides the "political" one then, but users in countries like Belgium and Switzerland have to live with that. The installer does not have a mechanism for setting the formats locale explicitly, and it can easily be tweaked afterwards in Settings.