On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 22:47, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 05:57:12PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > [...] > > > > Similarly, in some parts of the installer, there is a need to find the > > > > Country. Shouldn't that be found from LC_ALL as well? > > > > > > No, user must provide this information, it cannot be guessed. > > > > > > > I was thinking more of > > if (locale == "C") > > question user; > > else > > get country from locale. > > It doesn't work, you can't get country from locale, you must always ask > user to tell where he lives. Moreover where does this locale come from? > IMO we should at the very beginning ask > a. which language to use for installation > b. geographic location (a la tzselect/tzconfig) > > Denis > This is what I expected (and meant). At the start of installation, get the language and location, and then _store_them_in_the_locale, ie. set LC_ALL=fr_BE (for French in Belgium, for example). [ Again, on certain hardware we can help by making intelligent autodetects of language, and preset the default option, but we would still ask the question]. Then other parts of the install could read the locale / env. variable. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
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