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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1562279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2016-04-02 02:25, Jane Atkinson wrote:
> The locale settings were simply the result of following the standard 
> install process and confirming that my location was Auckland when 
> requested.

Right, understood. The installer tried to set reasonable locales based
on the selections you made.

> It sounds like something isn't working properly during the install.

It works as expected. But there is an inconsistency under the hood:
While the UIs you encounter after the installation only show language
options which represent translations, the installer does not care about
that. So in your case the installer set en_NZ.UTF-8 everywhere. But
since there are no en_NZ translations, that locale is ignored with
respect to the display language.

In case of Xubuntu, with lightdm-gtk-greeter, you instantly are enforced
to select one of the available translations, and the locale is altered
accordingly.

So please focus on the actual behavior of your desktop. Are you
encountering a real problem? I don't think you are.

What I think you should do is asking yourself which of the available
translations are closest to the English you speak in NZ, and select that
language. Based on your geographical location I would suspect it's
en_AU, but really don't know.

> Do I need to report a new bug?

No need to. If you can convince me that there is a problem which needs
to be fixed, I'll be happy to open this bug report again. But I don't
think you can. ;)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1562279

Title:
  Can't set en_NZ locale

Status in language-pack-en-base package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After updating language-pack-en and language-pack-en-base in Xubuntu
  16.04, I can no longer set en_NZ.UTF-8 as my locale in lightdm-
  greeter.

  Current locale, after fiddling with language support, is:

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=en
  LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_NAME=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_ADDRESS=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_TELEPHONE=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_NZ.UTF-8
  LC_ALL=

  Previously, everything was "en_NZ.UTF-8"

  I imagine that the same issue is going to apply to a number of
  English-language locales other than Australia, Canada, UK and US.
  These four, plus a generic "en" (which appears to default to en_US)
  are all that are displayed in the lightdm-greeter language menu.

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