Description of problem: I've followed the instructions in the "Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide": http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ 1. I'm installing FC4 from CDs, this is really a vanilla installation. 2. In the "Language Selection" form (paragraph 3.1 of the guide) I choose English - I prefer using that language during installation. 3. I need to install support for additional languages. Actually I would like French to be the default language for the system aftar installation. I follow the instructions in paragraph 12.3 of the guide and select French, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese as additional languages. 4. After rebooting, only English (en_US) can be used as the default system language: # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" # English had been chosen as the *installation* language udring installation. Now I would like French (fr_FR) to be the *default system language* but system-config-language does offer any choice. See attached screenshot. At first sight this may look as a duplicate of #160800 but it's not, although it's related. The problem here is that alternate languages are actually *not* completely installed. This is not about how involved it is to install them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.2.1.5-2 How reproducible: Always
Created attachment 115607 [details] screenshot of system-config-language
Actually it is a duplicate, I should have read bug #160800 more in detail. Still, bug #160800 is about two distinct issues: 1) It's not easy to install additional languages. 2) Once these additional languages are installed, they cannot be used as the system default language and system-config-language is actually useless. The first issue is a usability issue. The second issue is a real bug that requires hacking files in /etc/sysconfig to work around. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160800 ***
Since 160800 has been wrongly closed, I'm reopening this one.
Fixed in Rawhide again. We don't need to write out a SUPPORTED line in /etc/sysconfig/i18n since there are cases we can't write it out correctly and s-c-languages will do just fine without it.