** Description changed:

  When installing ubuntu (20.04 and later (earlier also probably))selecting
  - english (US) language
  - Brussels-Belgian timezone
  
  ubuntu selects de_BE as locale which is teh Belgian German-language
  locale
  
  in Belgium about 60% are dutch-speaking (nl_BE) and 40% are french
  speaking (fr_BE) and less than 1% are german speaking (de_BE)-->
  choosing de_BE seems to be a bad default value
  
+ related ubiquity code is here :
+ https://git.launchpad.net/ubiquity/tree/scripts/localechooser-apply
  
- related ubiquity code is here : 
https://git.launchpad.net/ubiquity/tree/scripts/localechooser-apply
- 
- 
- it seems when a language (en) is selected for Belgium which is not available 
as a locale (i.e. en-BE) the locale de_BE is chosen using this code
+ it seems when a language (en) is selected for Belgium which is not
+ available as a locale (i.e. en-BE) the locale de_BE is chosen using this
+ code
  
  -- code --
-               combined="$(grep ' UTF-8' /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | \
-                       grep "${deflang}_$COUNTRY[.@ ]" | head -n1 | \
-                       cut -d' ' -f1)"
+   combined="$(grep ' UTF-8' /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | \
+    grep "${deflang}_$COUNTRY[.@ ]" | head -n1 | \
+    cut -d' ' -f1)"
  -- code --
  
- 
  de_BE is chosen as I suppose it is alphabetically before fr_BE and nl_BE
- 
  
  I'm not sure what the best solution is
  
  I'd propose the following changes in order of my preference
  1. add a en_BE locale (https://www.localeplanet.com/icu/en-BE/index.html) and 
make that default for non wa, nl, fr and de languages
  2. allow user to select nl_BE or fr_BE locale when installing ubuntu (and 
maybe also de_BE or wa_BE which have much smaller % of people in Belgium) - may 
require a change of ubuntu install process - but I guess Belgium is not the 
only country with several languages with similar issues : Switzerland, ...
  3. set default language nl for Belgium (might be politically problematic for 
40% of Belgian people) but makes more sense than de
  
- 
- related AskUbuntu question : 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1299522/belgian-formats-when-choosing-us-language-regional-language-settings-issue
+ related AskUbuntu question : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1299522
+ /belgian-formats-when-choosing-us-language-regional-language-settings-
+ issue

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  default locale when selecting english(US) and belgian timezone is
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