Found during 13.0 release testing (originally by sqrt on #debian-cd, but
I can reproduce it).
Steps to reproduce
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* Boot debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-lxde.iso
* Install using Calamares, selecting a non-Thai locale
(I used British English, en_GB)
* Reboot to the installed system
* main menu → System
* If "Thai X Terminal" (the xiterm+thai package) appears, launch it
* try to type some command, e.g. grep --help
Expected result
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* Either:
- the Thai X Terminal is removed or not installed (because I chose a
non-Thai locale, and it is presumably only interesting to Thai
language users) and doesn't appear in the menu
or:
- the Thai X Terminal is installed
- commands can be run in it
Actual result
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* xiterm+thai is installed
* I see a bunch of messages in the terminal similar to:
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (th_TH): No such file or directory
* when I press keys, no text appears at the prompt
Other information
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When I installed from the *GNOME* live image (which installs
locales-all, not just locales), xiterm+thai does work. However, it
doesn't seem practically useful to anyone who cannot read Thai: it
appears to be hard-coded to set LANG=th_TH, so for example `grep --help`
gives me help text partially translated into Thai.
If ordinary terminal emulators like gnome-terminal and LXTerminal are
suitable for Thai-language users now that we have Unicode everywhere,
then I'd suggest just using those terminals, rather than having a
special Thai terminal preinstalled.
Or, if xiterm+thai is necessary for Thai-language users, then it's OK
for it to be in the live image, but I think the live installation
process should automatically remove it whenever it installs a system
that is configured for a non-Thai language.
smcv