autoyast language configuration

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Environment

SuSE Linux Enterprise autoyast installation.

Situation

Using an autoyast installation you want to enforce a specific encoding for the configured language.
For example for the language en_US you would like to have the language encoding set to:

ISO-8859-1

You try to specify this in autoyast via:


<
    language>en_US.ISO-8859-1
en_US

But this give you a completely different language and encoding after the installation.

Resolution

Unfortunately autoyast does currently not support setting a specific encoding.
The setting:

en_US.ISO-8859-1

is considered to be invalid by autoyast and a default language will be used instead.
You can only specify a language that way, e.g.:

en_US

would be a valid setting.
In order to enforce a specific encoding after the installation you can edit the file:

/etc/sysconfig/language

and set RC_LANG manually, e.g.:

RC_LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"

Additional Information

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