3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index fff4b3d3d..ec1987379 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+- localedrake: store country code in /etc/locale.conf (mga#24671)
 - diskdrake: fix resize of encrypted partitions (mga#22032)
 
 Version 18.11 - 16 March 2019
diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS
index 121317763..c7151e368 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+- store country code in /etc/locale.conf (mga#24671)
 - don't automatically change time zone on upgrade (mga#24670)
 - partitioning: fix resize of encrypted partitions (mga#22032)
 
diff --git a/perl-install/lang.pm b/perl-install/lang.pm
index 9e2127d35..5097fc735 100644
--- a/perl-install/lang.pm
+++ b/perl-install/lang.pm
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ sub pack_langs {
 }
 
 sub system_locales_to_ourlocale {
-    my ($locale_lang, $locale_country) = @_;
+    my ($locale_lang, $locale_country, $o_country) = @_;
     my $locale = {};
     my $h = analyse_locale_name($locale_lang);
     my $locale_lang_no_encoding = join('_', $h->{main}, if_($h->{country}, $h->{country}));
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ sub system_locales_to_ourlocale {
 	$locale_lang_no_encoding : #- special lang's such as en_US pt_BR
 	$h->{main};
     $locale->{lang} .= '@' . $h->{variant} if $h->{variant};
-    $locale->{country} = analyse_locale_name($locale_country)->{country};
+    $locale->{country} = $o_country || analyse_locale_name($locale_country)->{country};
     $locale->{utf8} = $h->{charset} && $h->{charset} eq 'UTF-8';
 
     #- safe fallbacks
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ sub read {
     my %h = getVarsFromSh($b_user_only && -e $f1 ? $f1 : $f2);
     # Fill in defaults (from LANG= variable)
     $h{$_} ||= $h{LANG} || 'en_US' foreach @locale_conf_fields;
-    my $locale = system_locales_to_ourlocale($h{LC_MESSAGES}, $h{LC_MONETARY});
+    my $locale = system_locales_to_ourlocale($h{LC_MESSAGES}, $h{LC_MONETARY}, $h{COUNTRY});
     
     if (find { $h{$_} } @IM_i18n_fields) {
         my $current_IM = find {
@@ -1401,6 +1401,7 @@ sub i18n_env {
 
     my $h = {
 	XKB_IN_USE => '',
+        COUNTRY => $locale->{country},
 	(map { $_ => $locale_lang } qw(LANG LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_TIME)),
 	LANGUAGE => getLANGUAGE($locale->{lang}, $locale->{country}, $locale->{utf8}),
 	(map { $_ => $locale_country } qw(LC_NUMERIC LC_MONETARY LC_ADDRESS LC_MEASUREMENT LC_NAME LC_PAPER LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_TELEPHONE))
@@ -1495,6 +1496,7 @@ sub write {
         my @filtered_keys = grep { exists $h->{$_} && ($_ eq 'LANG' || !exists $h->{LANG} || $h->{$_} ne $h->{LANG}) } @locale_conf_fields;
         my @filtered_input = grep { exists $h->{$_} } @IM_i18n_fields;
         push @filtered_keys, @filtered_input;
+        push @filtered_keys, 'COUNTRY' if exists $h->{COUNTRY};
         my $h2 = { map { $_ => $h->{$_} } @filtered_keys };
         setVarsInShMode($::prefix . $file, 0644, $h2);