#24 Missing support for en_US.UTF-8 locale despite defaulting to it

[Anton Samsonov]

Function load_lang_set() in scripts/sbin/drbl-functions defaults to en_US.UTF-8 locale. However, directory lang/bash provides en_US only. As a result, when run with LC_MESSAGES set to en_US.UTF-8 or unspecified, this function stops, saying “Not such language option!!!”. That also happens even when the wrapping utility, such as ocs-onthefly, is run with -l en_US option — because that parameter is not passed to child scripts.

Proposed solutions:

1. Either add symlinks, like en_US.UTF-8 pointing to en_US, for each translation file — like Clonezilla does in setup/files/gparted/usr/share/gparted/lang.
2. Or, better yet, patch the aforementioned function to automatically use an existing xx_XX translation file when xx_XX.UTF-8 locale requested; and also support basic C locale as an alias of en_US.

See the attached patch file regarding the second option.

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for your patch. It's applied in the git repository. We will use it in the next release.

Steven