Hi Philip Am 25-Mär-02 schrieb Philip Blundell:
> 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. Ah, so it just doesn't matter. And will even not when woody gets released I think. >>> 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? Oh no, stupid me, I meant locale string, the one you mentioned above! >> 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. Ok, I am sorry!! I've tried the boot-floppies for so many times but now getting it not even right to recall the first few requesters.. >> 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. Ok, I think I could do this! Is it ok when I am gonna post something on, lets say, thursday night? Would that be ok? Or is there a very close deadline for the manual to be frozen? -- bye, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
