24.04 install with a British timezone location sets en_US.UTF-8 locale

Shows as United States in 'Language Support'.

See screenshot.

Thanks for your report.

The "Language for menus and windows" setting shows which locale is used to determine the display language. That's unrelated to the keyboard layout for typing. You find the activated keyboard layouts in Settings -> Keyboard.

Closing.

Thanks I will report differently. An English->English UK install should be setting UK language and numerical etc. not United States.

Well, that's a different issue. ;)

Which time zone location did you select during the install?

And another question, btw: Did you use the new flutter based installer or the "legacy" Ubiquity one?

Time zones would be London.

I used the first working AMD64 daily live ISO of yesterday 20231115.1 that I assume defaults to the new flutter based GUI installer.

I could reproduce it.

The old installer makes use of the time zone location to "guess" the desired locale, but that is apparently not the case with the flutter based installer (at least not for the English variants).

There is a similar issue reported at GitHub: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer/issues/2386

Confirmed with bare metal install of Ubuntu 24.04.1. The locale set is LANG=en_US.UTF-8. It should be LANG=en_GB.UTF-8. On a 22.04 install, the local file at /etc/default/locale is indicated as having been generated with update-locale. The corresponding file for a 24.04.1 install had no such indication.

Presumably the installer should set the locale in two places:
a) via update-locale in /etc/default/locale
b) wherever Settings→System→Language and Region stores its settings, such that Language is set to English (United Kingdom) and Formats is set to United Kingdom

This would seem to be an installer omission as far as the UK is concerned.

The auto assignment to auto-github-canonical-ubuntu-desktop-installer #2324takes one to an /archived/ repo. The current assignment is incorrect.

This is a live bug and should be fixed.

The bug first became manifest to this author when Thunderbird (Snap installed) showed dates incorrectly on first configuration. After correcting the locales as noted below, then the correct localisation could be made, and dates displayed correctly for the UK.

Suggested fix:

    • To correct this for the system:
sudo update-locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en

    • For the principal user, using the GUI at Settings→System→Language and Region, set Language to English (United Kingdom), and Formats to United Kingdom. This change will trigger a logout from the current desktop session. On re-login, the language and formats should be set to United Kingdom.

Problem persists with 24.04.2 installer.