On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 00:26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Is there anything in the patch that should make it worse for non-latin > languages?
Yes. Take ja_JP as an example. At the moment, if you select Japanese at the dbootstrap language chooser screen, the first stage install will use Japanese and everything after reboot (ie base-config etc) will use English. With your patch, base-config and friends will try to use Japanese, but since the console is not capable of displaying the right glyphs, the result will be an unreadable mess. > If base-config is only used during first time install, and > users of non-latin languages just stay away from setting LANG and > LANGUAGES in /root/dbootstrap_settings during first time install, then > my patch should be safe. Is this valid argumentation until some user > of non-latin languages fixes the last bit? That's a valid point of view, but you will need to put the code in dbootstrap to detect a non-latin language and write out an appropriate dbootstrap_settings file. > Any idea how I could detect if the locale is non-latin? Well, you already have the character set name on hand. I think you can assume that any encoding other than ISO-8859 variants will need special handling. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
