On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 10:07:20AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Denis Barbier] > > Hmmm, sending SIGUSR1 signal should allow this too. > > Well, it doesn't.
But it does work in languagechooser, doesn't it? Changing language takes effect immediately. > > And you can append 'en' to LANGUAGE environment variable before > > running cdebconf. > > I suspect this would override the selected choice every time cdebconf > is restarted (after a crash, or when the frontend change). I don't understand, appending 'en' to LANGUAGE is harmful. > I believe the best long term goal is to rewrite cdebconf to handle > language and frontend changes on the fly. It should just switch > language every time debconf/language is set, and switch frontend every > time debconf/frontend is set. But I suspect this will require major > rewrite of cdebconf, and do not intend to wait for this to happen. > > As for only displaying ASCII until the language is selected, I think > debian-installer should work in UTF-8 all the time. Terminals unable > to handle this will just have to live with the pain. I discussed this > with Martin earlier, and I believe we agreed on this. Sure, this is why I wrote: PR> Should english (en) always be a fallback langauge? DB> In debian-installer, yes. As a debconf replacement, no. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
