Description of problem: Changing the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to stay with en_US.UTF-8 for system accounts and some other settings for normal accounts would allow servers and startup code to stay with en_US, but still have normal users with a local language. Right now this requires "~/.i18n" files to exist for all users. regards, Florian La Roche Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
It would also mean that users in other countries that _don't_ speak English would be confronted with a lot of English garbage on startup. Which makes their user experience suck.
You mis-understood, this should be as additional option, not the only option offered. regards, Florian La Roche
What? So there should be a "Show system messages in an unintelligible language" checkbox? That's crazy. If there's a strong desire to add the functionality in initscripts, etc as a power-user type thing then feel free to convince there. I don't think that it's something that really makes sense to expose in the installer.