On ma, 2003-06-02 at 19:38, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I think that's the best solution. There are parts of the world with more > than one official language, and in some of those parts (such as Quebec, > or Belgium), guessing incorrectly may be a good way to severely piss > off a user.
Additonally, in every part of the world there tend to be visitors. If, say, I were sent to Japan, I wouldn't want a computer I install there to suddenly start speaking Japanese at me, since I don't understand the language it all. There are also locations that have no native language at all: the Antarctica, and ships, oil rigs, and desert islands, for example. (If I ever get marooned on a desert island and fail to install Debian because it can't figure out what locale to set, I shall declare myself king and be royally angry.) -- Enemies of Carlotta 1.0 mailing list manager: http://liw.iki.fi/liw/eoc/
