Do you mean that that is the trick to breaking it? It probably is not. Locale, Timezone, Keyboard, and WLAN country are four independent settings stored in completely different files. If en_US is not defaulting to .UTF-8 for you it is probably doing that for people who are in America too. (Though I am ready to be surprised if it turns out something is broken beyond all logic.)1. While burning the iso, you setup the additional information too (e.g. wifi, username etc). The trick is to use US english as your language, but a timezone that's outside of the US (plus the wifi country code of that country you're in). I'm American, but I live in Greece, for example.
You can possibly fix it by using sudo LC_ALL=C raspi-config to temporarily disable locale support during the fix.3. When trying to go to raspi-config and set up us-utf8, you will be greeted with a mysterious error message called "L1". The problem can't be fixed with the GUI raspi-config, nor the terminal version.
I still think that the original bug was fixed at the time of the previous thread. So we may now be looking a bug in rpi-imager, rather than piwiz. Can you confirm that you were using the Imager, and a Desktop version of Raspberry Pi OS?
Do you get all the same problems if you run sudo raspi-config nonint do_change_locale_rc_gui en_US and reboot? This should break programs that need Unicode, but it does not break raspi-config itself, for me.
Statistics: Posted by jojopi — Wed Dec 11, 2024 8:57 pm