On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 22:38, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > 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. > > But in the second stage?
The second stage isn't localised at this time. (In boot-floppies speak, the "second stage" installer is the stuff that happens after reboot, ie base-config and all that.) Even if it were localised, the majority of programs would probably still not bother to carry different catalogs for specific regions. > > 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.) > > What is this language string exactly for? Sorry, I am not that experienced > with the boot-floppies. Sorry, I don't understand the question. Which language string are you referring to? > Maybe something like this. Altough I still can't imagine how it should > influence the keymap, as the keymap gets chosen before the language requester > pops up IIRC (or am I wrong with this?). You're wrong. The language chooser is the very first screen that dbootstrap displays, followed by the release notes. > Well, what do you want now, do you want me to do a short wording for the > requester, for the manual, or both, or neither of them? Just for the manual, I think. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
