On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:55:48PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: [...] > However, I have one concern. Debconf is one of softwares which is > used in early stage of Debian installation. Thus, Debconf should > not depend on many/large packages/data. > > Encoding conversion is a relatively heavy process. I mean, collection > of conversion tables is large. [...]
As Debconf frontends are supposed to be UTF-8 compliant, there is no need for conversions if Debconf messages are UTF-8 encoded. And I wonder whether locales are useful at early stage of installation, do we need more than Debconf translated messages? Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]