Re: [patch] cdebconf and i18n
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:51:49PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2002-11-11 klockan 17.17 skrev Denis Barbier:
> > > > It doesn't work, you can't get country from locale, you must always ask
> > > > user to tell where he lives.
> > > They are in
> > > language_country.codeset format.
> > > ja_JP is Japan,
> > > pt_BR is Brazil.
> > >
> > > What is the problem?
> > Do you really think that there are no Japanese people outside of Japan?
>
> I think you're talking past each other. ;-) I think that Junichi means
> that we should use the LC_* ll_CC format for the information,
The problem is that CC does not tell where the user is living, it is only
meaningful to distinguish between language variants. For many reasons, CC
could be different from your country code (e.g. try to set locales to sv_US
or ja_US).
> while I think Denis means that there is no way to get this information
> without *asking* the user at least *once*
Right.
Denis
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