On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:56:29PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > But after the reboot, debconf is in english (and not in german). Debconf > > have already translated messages and it support this on a normal system. > > > > This english text is a bug. Maybe a unset LANG, maybe a LANG with a > > wrong value or a missing lib etc. > > AFAIK, it is not easy to integrate i18n into base-config. First, locales > package is not installed by default. If you set the LANG value too > early, you will see bunch of Perl warnings. Better would be to enable > the language (if it is a latin language), and after the apt > configuration part, ask about the language. OTOH this uses debconf, > which requires additional configration. I would suggest this scheme: > > a) dialog like "would you like to install localisation support?" > presets the "locales" debconf entry to generate the locales of the > own group, ie. all de_* locales for german language if someone select a languages other than english in languages chooser, 'yes' should the default. > b) "would you like to configure localisation for language profiles other > than default and <your lang>?" > if yes, preset the "debconf" configuration to make it quiet > if no, in the debconf database we set debconf verbosity level to > "quit" (what was it? Importance to >= critical?) > b) a dialog like "as next, the localisation support will be installed > you will have the choice to generate support profiles for different > languages" > c) apt-get-install the "locales" package > d) reconfigure debconf > > ... continue with installation. ok, this should work. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Linux - mehr Pinguin braucht kein Mensch
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