elijah wright wrote: > > > > - cdebconf should not use translated strings on dumb terminals. > > > > Can you tell why? I know nothing about dumb terminals, googled a bit > > but did not find anything interesting. This is not d-i related, but > > #232296 discusses whether English text could contain UTF-8 encoded > > non-ASCII characters. From your message, it seems that this is a bad > > idea, but could you please elaborate? > > dumb terminals, at least in the US, are ascii-only. no clue whether > anyone ever manufactured terminals that did non-roman-alphabetic or > non-ascii characters. i would think "maybe", but i don't know for sure.
AFAIH vt102 supports latin1, so most "vt100-comaptible" terminals should be suitable for western european languages. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
