Prospective languagechooser
Several recent discussions happened about languagechooser :
-no natural sorting of proposed languages
-bad mix of language/country choice which makes the language list
quite strange (four french entries at the top, five english entries
and so on)
>From these discussions, I've built a prospective languagechooser
package, based on today's CVS.
In this package, I've removed the multiple country choice for each
language....so each language has only one entry.
Entries are sorted alphabetically, regarding to the 2-letter ISO codes
for the given languages
Only languages with a significant amount of translation in
debian-installer are kept. I kept Arabic, Turkish, however as the
respective language teams gave some news about some progress. Other
are commented but not lost.
At this time, when choosing a language, a default "country" is also
chosen. For sure, that not ideal for, say, french-speaking people from
Belgium or Canada as they will have France as default country.
This situation is supposed to be temporary, while a new package named
"countrychooser" is developed (Steve Langasek proposed to work on it,
I'll help as mush as possibe).
This countrychooser package will allow to choose a country, which
could then be used for locale setting, keyboard setting (but
kbd-chooser will run anyway) and even mirror country. All this still
needs discussion anyway.
As this is mostly prospective, I didn't commit anything. The new
languagechooser package is available at:
http://www.perrier.eu.org/debian/packages/languagechooser.tar.gz
http://www.perrier.eu.org/debian/packages/languagechooser_1.09_all.udeb
Please test and comment....
Petter suggested me to file a BR against languagechooser with my
proposed patch. I'll do this also as this will help in a possible
future switch.
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