Re: [RFC] Major issue with use of Choices-C

2008-04-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > My proposal would be to modify both cdebconf and debconf so that the last > C in Choices-C is interpreted as "Codes" and not as "C locale", and thus > also display the value of the Choices field if debconf/language is set to > C. After a private ping,

Re: [RFC] Major issue with use of Choices-C

2008-04-09 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:59:43AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > This indeed is a real issue. > > I tested this by loading the following template on a running system (so > using debconf): […] Using the same test material with cdebconf, I have the following results: > Test results: > # LC_ALL=en_US.

Re: [RFC] Major issue with use of Choices-C

2008-04-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > This indeed is a real issue. I've been looking at a solution for this in debconf, but am confused. # LANG= LANGUAGE=nl LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ../../test-debconf-C => Dialog is displayed in Dutch @langs = nl:en_us.utf-8:en_us:en.utf-8:en # LANG= LANGUAGE

Re: [RFC] Major issue with use of Choices-C

2008-04-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > In D-I this currently results in "C, en" being displayed as languages for > serial console installs instead of "C, English". It does not result in > issues elsewhere because we "force" debconf/language to "en" if the C > locale is selected. It seems t

[RFC] Major issue with use of Choices-C

2008-04-01 Thread Frans Pop
We are switching more and more to using Choices-C to abstract the actual choices away from the text displayed to users by using "codes" in the Choices-C field instead of text strings. However, there is a major problem with the current implementation of Choices-C in cdebconf (and probably debconf