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Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection

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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20250803+deb13u5
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
X-Debbugs-Cc: whr@rivoreo.one

Hello.

When I installing this Debian GNU/Linux trixie system, I have selected
'Chinese (Traditional)' in the '[!!] Select a language' screen, which is the
first step in the debian-installer, then in the next screen of selecting my
location, I selected 'China'. After this point, the UI language of the 
installer completely switched to Simplified Chinese, and the final installed
system has 'LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8', which is completely against my initial
selection.

In my understanding, the location selection should only provide a hint for the
default time zone and the default network APT sources; it shouldn't change the
language, as my preferred language has already been set by the first screen.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.94+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection WHR <whr@rivoreo.one> - 2026-07-06 05:50 +0200
  Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-07-07 20:30 +0200
  Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection "WHR" <whr@rivoreo.one> - 2026-07-08 08:40 +0200
    Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection "WHR" <whr@rivoreo.one> - 2026-07-08 08:50 +0200
    Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-07-08 22:20 +0200
      Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2026-07-08 23:20 +0200
      Bug#1141547: debian-installer didn't respect my language selection "WHR" <whr@rivoreo.one> - 2026-07-09 03:50 +0200

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