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The selected country will be used later in the installation process to
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pick the default timezone and an Ubuntu mirror appropriate for your
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geographic location. Language and country together will be used to set
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the default locale for your system and to help select your keyboard.
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The selected geographic location (in most cases a country) will be used
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later in the installation process to select the correct time zone and an
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Ubuntu mirror appropriate for that country.
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Language and country together will help determine the default locale for
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your system and select the correct keyboard layout.
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If you selected a language that is recognized as an official language for
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more than one country<footnote>
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Next you will be asked to select your geographic location. If you selected
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a language that is recognized as an official language for more than one
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In technical terms: where multiple locales exist for that language with
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differing country codes.
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</footnote>, you will be shown a list of only those countries. To select a
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country that is not in that list, choose <guimenuitem>Other</guimenuitem>
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country that is not in that list, choose <guimenuitem>other</guimenuitem>
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(the last option). You will then be presented with a list of continents;
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selecting a continent will lead to a list of relevant countries on that
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If the language has only one country associated with it, that country
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will be selected automatically. In that case it is only possible to select
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a different country by first lowering the debconf priority to medium,
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followed by revisiting the language selection option in the main menu of
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A default locale will be selected based on the selected language and country.
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If you are installing at medium or low priority, you will have the option
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of selecting a different default locale and of selecting additional locales to
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be generated for the installed system.
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If the language has only one country associated with it, a list of countries
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will be displayed for the continent or region the country belongs to, with
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that country selected as the default. Use the <guibutton>Go Back</guibutton>
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option to select countries on a different continent.
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It is important to select the country where you live or where you are
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located as it determines the time zone that will be configured for the
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If you selected a combination of language and country for which no locale is
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defined and there exist multiple locales for the language, then the installer
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will allow you to choose which of those locales you prefer as the default
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locale for the installed system<footnote>
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At medium and low priority you can always select your preferred locale from
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those available for the selected language (if there's more than one).
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</footnote>. In all other cases a default locale will be selected based on
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the selected language and country.
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Any default locale selected as described in the previous paragraph will use
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<firstterm>UTF-8</firstterm> as character encoding.
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If you are installing at low priority, you will have the option
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of selecting additional locales, including so-called <quote>legacy</quote>
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Legacy locales are locales which do not use UTF-8, but one of the older
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standards for character encoding such as ISO 8859-1 (used by West
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European languages) or EUC-JP (used by Japanese).
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</footnote>, to be generated for the installed system; if you do, you will
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be asked which of the selected locales should be the default for the