Re: Disabling vga16 in the boot config
Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> cum veritate scripsit:
> The trouble with using bterm is that it requires everything to be in
> UTF-8. At the moment at least, this isn't typically the case for latin
> languages. In the closed world of dbootstrap it's no problem to recode
> all the strings while building the boot-floppies, but at the time
> base-config runs the strings will be coming directly from random
> packages. I had the impression that even with Japanese most strings
> were still coded in EUC-JP rather than Unicode, but maybe I was wrong
> about that.
That is the case.
That's why we need kon2, instead of bterm.
I think bterm was only capable of UTF-8.
Not all programs work with UTF-8 in Japanese...
regards,
junichi
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