[Users] locale en_AU

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/23/2012 08:17 AM, Jason Lawer wrote:
> Yeah, I think I am (3.0 is stable isn't it?)

yes, 3.1 still not out.

>
> Sorry, I did a search through bugzilla but wasn't able to find anything
> matching this.
>
> As I am a recent member on the list I didn't know about this. Is there
> somewhere I should look for information on things like this?

well, the wiki, google and git log / gerrit patch queue
google covers wiki and git/gerrit log:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ovirt+locale+check


>
> Jason
>
> On 23/04/12 3:08 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 04/23/2012 03:00 AM, Jason Lawer wrote:
>>> I just tried to run engine-setup and got the following error.
>>>
>>> [root at manager ~]# engine-setup
>>> Error: current locale (en_AU.UTF-8) is not supported. supported locales
>>> are: en_US.UTF-8,en_US.utf-8,en_US.utf8
>>> Please check log file
>>> /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine-setup_2012_04_23_09_07_53.log for more
>>> information
>>>
>>> While I can easily change the locale settings on the box, I really think
>>> this is a bit of a crazy limitation as almost every other bit of
>>> software seems to assume en_AU = en_US as almost no software ends up
>>> creating an Australian localization for it. The character set is the
>>> same, the keyboards are the same, and I can't see any reason why en_AU
>>> (or say en_NZ) would cause a problem. The only differences I can think
>>> of are dates (DD/MM/YYYY vs MM/DD/YYYY) and the metric system.
>>>
>>> What would need to be the process to fix this? Is this just because no
>>> one has been willing to test or it is a policy?
>>
>> actually, this was blocked due to locale and timezone issues to
>> minimize problems until further testing, but later opened to allow
>> reporting of any such issues.
>> so, I assume you are trying 3.0? as this should have been fixed for
>> 3.1 already:
>>
>> commit 3f9b8085dec28b23f483058e8a416122e7be1a75
>> Author: Idan Mansano <imansano at redhat.com>
>> Date: Thu Jan 26 11:26:53 2012 +0200
>>
>> engine-setup won't validate locale in the system
>