Re: i18n requires setlocale

[Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@tuxfamily.org>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:32:30PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I would also like to add support for the LANGUAGE style variable
> listing several languages in priority order to be able to use other
> translations if the primary translation is missing.  I want it to be
> able to tell the system to use Norwegian Bokmål if present, and if it
> isn't use Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish and as a last resort Swedish.
> This way non-english speakers in Norway have a good chance of
> understanding the installation.

AFAIK, if you are using gettext, setting

LANG=nb:nn:da:sv

should do the trick since gettext implements fallbacks. AFAIK, it's not
implemented yet in debconf.

Bye, Mt.

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