On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: >> I happened to run /bin/sh in the partition to recover, >> in which th_TH locale is set by default, and Thai >> messages are just displayed perfectly, even in >> full-screen dialogs, thanks to the font and terminal >> support. >> >> So, Thai can be enabled in text-mode d-i. > > The one does not automatically follow from the other. I doubt it's that > simple and there's very likely to be a cost to doing it. > It would probably require us to add additional fonts (or switch to a larger > different font) that would mean an increase in size for all images. > We have at least one platform that would break with even a small increase > in size.
I realize that limitation. And I proposed it because I've tried it on the very terminal provided by Squeeze d-i daily built image, in rescue mode. It already works out of the box with the shipped font. Nothing more to add. >> Another thing I found counter-intuitive is the locale >> and timezone choosing based on the installer language. >> What if g-i cannot run on my hardware (which is likely >> to be the case if it's switched to X11, due to the broken >> i830M support [1], > > That's not correct as IIUC the X.Org based G-I will continue to use > framebuffer and not graphics card specific drivers. OK. I see. >> for example) but I need to install >> Debian on it with my locale and timezone selected? >> It's impossible with the current UI design. > > That's not correct either, *especially* not with the new UI design for > localechooser for Squeeze. > > The timezone is based on the *location* you select, and not on the > *language* you select. And you can select all locations with any language. Probably, that new design is not released yet. So, I didn't see it in my recent use. (Well, feeling familiar with the strings I translated lately, though.) > And in expert mode you can even select *any random locale*, including > legacy locales as your default locale for the installed system regardless > of the language you select. Oh, yes. There always is the expert mode.. :-) > The only thing that will not be set correctly is the LANGUAGE setting as > that is 100% determined by the installer language. That should be fine for most users. Thanks for the explanation. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
