On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 22:18, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Well, but that's exactly the problem: I DON'T know what the effects are, > and therefore I just can't estimate which language/region option would be best > for me!!
>From a design perspective, the main effect of the region chooser is to provide a complete locale string, eg "de_AT" rather than just "de". However, this doesn't make any difference during the first stage install because the message catalogs are the same for all territories. The only instance where this would be false is Taiwan and PRC, which do have distinct zh_TW/zh_CN catalogs, but at present this is handled by just listing traditional and simplified Chinese separately in the top level LC. (I have no idea whether it would be considered desirable, or indeed feasible, to put them both under a common "Chinese" heading.) The secondary effects are to provide default values for the keymap and ftp mirror. For example, if you choose "English (United Kingdom)", upon entry to the keymap selector the highlight will already be positioned over the UK keymap; similarly, at the download screen, the server field will have been filled in with "ftp.uk.debian.org". You are perfectly at liberty to choose a different keymap or server if you know better than dbootstrap what you want. Older versions of the boot-floppies used US defaults all the time. So, from the user's perspective, the answer is that it doesn't matter very much. You should choose the language that you are most comfortable with, and then the region that seems like the closest match to your locality. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
