On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:52:42AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: > > No, but isn't that the point of separating sv_SE.UTF-8 from > sv_SE.ISO-8859-1? gettext does the conversion on the fly, so all > gettext-using programs work just fine. Debconf doesn't. (yet)
To sum up then: - for udebs, we: * make the templates.ll files in whatever encoding we like * recode (say using iconv) the templates.ll to UTF-8 when creating the "combined" templates file * simply copy the strings read from templates (now in UTF-8) to output at run time. That way cdebconf [1] doesn't need huge conversion tables. * only run cdebconf (and thus whole debian-installer) in bterm [2] - for debs (base system), we: * make the templates.ll files in whatever encoding * either recode them or not when concatening * use iconv at run time in debconf - see the script in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=148490&repeatmerged=yes [3] 1. Am I right that cdebconf handles the templates in debian-installer? 2. Is this possible on all architectures? I mean: do all architectures use framebuffer? That also means that bterm will be "Essential" in debian-installer, since we won't be able to output any localized text without it. 3. That will make debconf depend on libtext-iconv-perl, though and force its inclusion into base system. Is that acceptable? Did I get it right? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]