Re: debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > AFAIH vt102 supports latin1, so most "vt100-comaptible" terminals > should be suitable for western european languages. vt100 terminals are not "dumb". Bastian -- Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion (love).

Re: debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-07 Thread Thiemo Seufer
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 contai

Re: debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:49:04PM -0600, elijah wright wrote: > 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. At least not this s

Re: debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-05 Thread elijah wright
> > - 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 chara

Re: debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-05 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > hi folks Hi Bastian, > i do some work on the s390 port and see the following not realy bugs: > - cdebconf uses \r for the progress bar which the terminal don't > support, it looks like this: > |Y 1.5%" Y 1.5%" Unpacking auto

debian-installer - some oddities

2004-03-05 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i do some work on the s390 port and see the following not realy bugs: - cdebconf uses \r for the progress bar which the terminal don't support, it looks like this: |Y 1.5%" Y 1.5%" Unpacking autopartkit | Y 3.0%" Y 3.0%" Retrieving base-installer |