Quoting Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, but in all these steps, what is actually done by localechooser and > by countrychooser ? I read the thread (well, I must say I didn't read > ALL the thread...) but I still can't figure out which is which and what > it does. Also note that it's been a while I last installed a Debian, so... > Final question: is all that about choosing a language (for locale) or > choosing a location (place) (for timezone or whatever else) ?
There is no localechooser. In d-i, you first get the languagechooser menu. It allows people choosing a language. For simplification reasons, this screen already includes some country choices, for instance you can choose "English (USA)" or "English (Australia)" or "English (other countries)". If you choose "English (USA)", you're not prompted for any country at all. The country is set to USA (debconf value debian-installer/country) and the language is set to en (debconf value debian-installer/language) while the locale is set to en_US (debconf value debian-installer/locale) If you choose "English (other countries)", the language is set to en and you're then dropped into another screen for choosing a country. This screen is called the "short list". It only lists countries for which a valid en_XX locale is supported by the locales package (in this case, Canada/Australia/Great Britain/USA/New Zealand/India/....). Choosing a country there will set the country value to that country and the locale value to the given en_XX locale. Finally, on this short screen, you can choose "Other" which will drop you into the world "country" list (the iso-3166 list). Choosing a country there will only set the country value, but NOT the locale value because this will be an unsupported locale. This seems complicated but this was needed for being sure to support all supported locales for some widespread languages such as English or Spanish. The implementation of this is complicated. The consequence for the user is not (or is supposed not to be...:-))) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
